13 degrees tonight, everything snow covered and icy, and the wind still. Winter is making itself at home, and even our fires can't keep it at bay. I sit in the rocker in front of the old stone fireplace, watch the flames and hear winter howling at the windows. A good night to be indoors.
This morning as I watched the birds at the feeder a flock of a dozen starlings suddenly flew in, scattering the smaller birds and raising a raucous racket. I was surprised, because we seldom see starlings up here.
A few minutes later, a red-tailed hawk swooped down, attacking one of the starlings. His arrival caused all the starlings to fly away with a great rush of wings, and the hawk chased after them, still intent on his victim. Whether he caught the starling I could not tell, but none of them returned and the snowbirds, titmice, cardinals, chickadees, nuthatches, blue jays, downy and red-bellied woodpeckers and wrens soon returned.
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