Hawks

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16. Beautiful! We always have Crows nesting

in our large Oaks and a couple of years ago, we heard the loudest racket of about 10 just squawking like crazy and sitting on our back fence, looking down in a drainage ditch. It must have gone on for 10 or 15 minutes until a couple of Hawks arrived on the fence, the Crows calmed down, and sat for a minute and took off, leaving the Hawks looking intently in the ditch.

I assume all the rukus was over a snake in the ditch, one of the Hawks did fly down into it and check things out, but the snake had made his getaway and no one got fed that day.

We have a lot of Black Racers and I have even seen Blue Jays attacking them before.