Some songbirds continue to thrive including black-capped chickadees (495), red-breasted nuthatches (20), white-breasted nuthatches (47), European starlings (501), snow buntings (115) and American ...
Remember how the broad-winged hawk is the smallest Buteo hawk? Well, the sharp-shinned hawk is the smallest hawk overall! At their largest, they weigh less than 8 ounces. That’s around the same ...
I also noticed a sharp-shinned hawk perched on a sunflower plant and as a goldfinch flew by, the hawk quickly captured the luckless bird. It was not long before a northern shrike captured a siskin ...