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Posted by Elsa on 21:32:57 02/25/09
It's been very birdy in the Redland this week. All week I have heard the zee zee of cedar waxwings and this morning I was treated to about a dozen of them in a leafless tree in my yard. Also, with the white orchid tree in full bloom, the ruby-throated hummingbirds that shares their winters with me are very noisy and flighty, which is great because otherwise I would never know they were there. You want a wintering hummingbird, plant a white orchid, seriously. Here is a funny hawk/dove story: Every day, twice a day I walk my dog past a huge tropical almond tree, it is currently defoliated so it is easy to see the large flocks of white-winged doves. One morning this week I noticed there were no doves. On the way back I saw why: a Cooper's Hawk was perched in the middle of the tree. As I was admiring him, a lone dove came flying into the tree. The hawk and I both looked at him. All of a sudden, about a centimeter away from landing, seemed to suddenly notice the hawk and did a terribly awkward about-face and flapped away madly. I laughed, and you know what, I think the hawk was laughing too (OK so flame me for anthropomorphism).
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