Sunday, April 14, 2013

Name that bird

So today, Sunday, we were sitting around minding our own business and whoosh, a flutter of grey and a flash of tail feathers and a bird is lodged in our back fence.  Upon first glance, I thought it an Eurasian collard dove.  A shoot on site kinda bird, and tasty too.  But like all good hunters do, I double checked because I wanted to be 100% of my quarry.  The first thing I noticed, looking through optics, was a curved beak, and big eyes, not very dove like.  So we watched and waited, oh and put up the gun.(no dove on the menu tonight.) Peggy broke out the camera and shot some film of the cute little bugger.  It was eating something it had caught, which we later found out was a small bird.  We tried to get a closer shot, but in the process of walking around (Peggy claims) my jogging pants made a swoosh swoosh noise that startled the bird away.  We think it was a sharp-shinned hawk, but let us know what you think. 
 
If you can't tell, it is Andy who is addressing you this day.  I am doing better, the pain comes and goes based on how much I do during the day.  Who would have thought that walking can make your shoulder hurt?.  I've been told I can start walking, so guess who is going walking more (Peggy is making me)?  Yep, it's me.  I don't really know what else to tell you.  I will let Peggy know I uploaded the video and hopefully someone out there can tell us what kind of bird it is.

Have a Merry Christmas and a lovely day.
Andy.