[CT Birds] sharpie drama

[Katz1449 at aol.com]

>From Bev Propen  2/19  Orange backyard
 
At 1:25PM  a sharpie sky-rocketed through my yard,  angling and banking in 
hot pursuit of some small bird (too fast to see  it).  The sharpie missed its 
meal and landed in the backyard by the stone  wall at the base of a tree.  It 
sat there for 10 minutes, tilting its head  and observing its surroundings. It 
watched a gray squirrel hop by.  It  then flew into my forsythia hedge, as I 
watched the birds (mostly house  sparrows, chickadees and house finches) in the 
hedge hopping around and the blue  jay was screeching from a nearby tree.   
This sharpie (I assume the  same one) makes its rounds in my yard usually once a 
week, although as I look at  my NHBC winter yard count sheet,  I haven't 
marked it down for 3 weeks  now.



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