ok so here I am sitting watching football and all the birds have been acting as if the predators are patrolling ... and I am facing the back yard glass sliding door and notice on our mourning doves fly under our roof and in panic , 1 -2 feet from the glass door. A second later he is in the clutches of what looks like a hawk - I assume we dont have falcons in Toronto ??/ but this predator had wings that bent backwards like boomerangs and was small. a tad larger than the dove. I could have also sworn he had a rope or something tied to his right talon.
i jumped up and the open the door and he flew over the fence into the park behind our yard and then i yelled and he let the dove go, last thing I saw was the dove flying full throatily away and the hawk in pursuit. here I caught a close glimpse of it and YES he did have a thin rope tide to his right leg.
I feel sort of guilty that the doves we have ( had) are so comfortable in our yard, and now the raptors are taking them...
I know everyone must survive but we are very attached to the doves.
« Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 PM by Raven11:11 »
Birding takes my mind off stuff and it adds good life to a tuff life. It also helps me forget about my spine pain and stress. Laugh, eat, be merry. Anybody with extra $ may send me some as It will permit me to travel.
