Hawks

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17. The woods surrounding this new housing development have a murder of crows

--don't you love the language for a "flock" of crows-- that are the noisiest damn birds. They are often here in the morning and the evening. They must hang out in the woods during the day when it's so hot. I'm fairly certain we had a Canadian goose sitting on a nest by the pond in the spring, with her partner staying right near her to frighten off the crows that were trying to get her off the nest. Never saw any goslings, so I think they might have succeeded. I watched them many times swoop down and the male lift off the water with his wings flapping to scare them away. It might have been the hawks or something else, too that got to the eggs. But the crows were trying their best to get her off the nest.