As I was having my morning coffee, I overheard a bird screeching and ran out on the back deck only to see this hawk flying up from the driveway and landing on the back fence. After comparing tons of pictures and sound bites, I believe it is a sharp-shinned hawk. Thought it was a merlin at first but I believe the tail is too long and the coloring is not quite right. The bird sat there for the longest time and I noticed his/her feathers were somewhat disturbed. Just then, Skye jumped up from the driveway onto the fence and I began to wonder if she had tried to take a songbird from the hawk or if she had indeed attacked the hawk. I found no evidence of a dead songbird and as I have noted before, Skye seems fearless, I suspect she may have tried to grab this hawk. One of these days she's going to use up her nine lives.
Beautiful bird. Hawks are just amazing.
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