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Birders

Arkansas Granny

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7. The hawk has to eat, too, and is just doing it's thing. If it doesn't find birds in your yard,

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Tue Dec 10, 2019, 10:19 AM

Dec 2019

it will just find them someplace else. It disturbed me at first when this happened at my feeders, but I finally realized that I was still feeding birds, I had just expanded the variety,

From the piles of feathers I find in my yard, the hawks seem to be fond of Collared Doves. They are about the size of a pigeon and their light coloring makes them easy to spot in the tree tops. They are not a native species and seem to have replaced Mourning Doves around my house.

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The hawk has to eat, too, and is just doing it's thing. If it doesn't find birds in your yard, Arkansas Granny Dec 2019 #7