Yesterday afternoon, while enjoying the beautiful weather and a refreshing glass of sauvignon blanc, I watched from my apartment, one of the red-tail hawks that live in our immediate neighborhood. The hawk gracefully rode the wind down from high on its perch across the street and landed on one of the light poles for the great lawn at the RFK Community Schools campus. As the hawk sat there, a catbird obviously feeling its nest threatened, tried valiantly and persistently to shoo the hawk away by flitting at it non-stop. The hawk looked to care less about the catbird and continued to sit there, probably with its sights on some far tastier dinner treat. Like a rodent! This went on for approximately 20 minutes, until the hawk, reasonably fed up, flew over to one of the other light posts to continue its watch. Only to have that catbird follow him. All during this faux battle between the hawk & catbird, I had a sweet hummingbird come and pay me a visit to feast on my flowering plants.
It seems that more & more hummingbird feeders are making their way outside the units on the backside (north & west) of the Gaylord. Soon, the Gaylord will be attracting innumerable hummingbirds that one large, buzzing shadow will surround our beloved home and will bring us the joy that these colorful, little birds of flight put forth.
