In my Aunt Joann and Uncle Charlie's backyard, there was an amazing site! A Cooper Hawk was about to kill a woodpecker!
You can see the Cooper Hawk. It is the large grey bird. The woodpecker is the little bird with a wing with yellow stripes on it.
Before the Cooper hawk could kill the woodpecker, Uncle Charlie ran towards it!
The Cooper Hawk thinks that Uncle Charlie is an enemy.
The Cooper Hawk decided to let go of the woodpecker and fly away!
Hooray for Uncle Charlie!
The woodpecker was saved!
As you can see, the woodpecker has a red face. His face is not covered in blood; his face is just red in general.
Have you ever seen a bird try to kill another bird?
Have you ever seen a Cooper Hawk or a Woodpecker?
It's like watching National Geographic or The Animal Channel. Excellent story--pictures and description. Great job.
ReplyDelete@ Papa,
DeleteThank you very much for the comment!
I have never seen The Animal Channel, but I have heard of National Geographic. A huge map, sponsored by National Geographic, came to our school. We played on it and explored it. It was really fun!
Sincerely,
⚡R��yce⚡
Is that a Gilded Flicker it was about to kill?
DeleteDear Royce,
ReplyDeleteThose are fascinating pictures Aunt Joann and Uncle Charlie sent you. It was amazing for them to witness a real life adventure in their backyard. We are happy that the woodpecker's life was saved through the efforts of Uncle Charlie. We have seen many woodpeckers in our yard and other birds being attacked by cats but not by other birds.
Do you ever see any large birds flying over the area behind your back fence?
Love,
Grandma and Grandpa.
Dear Grandma and Grandpa,
DeleteFabulous comment!
Flying over the area behind my fence, I have seen hawks and crows. In some of the trees in my backyard, I have seen hummingbirds drinking nectar from flowers. I have seen rabbits scurrying around on the grass.
How did cats get into your backyard?
Sincerely,
Royce
Dear Royce,
ReplyDeleteWow, what an interesting post. The photos are amazing. They look like they belong to National Geographic.
Hooray for Uncle Charlie indeed! What were you doing that you noticed the hawk trying to kill the woodpecker? Do you think the woodpecker was sick and that is why the hawk targeted it?
I have never seen a one bird try to kill another. I had always though that hawks prey mostly on rodents. Is that true?
Best,
Victoria
@ Victoria,
DeleteThank you for leaving me a comment!
Hawks prey on rodents, but they also prey on a lot of other animals too.
I was not at my Uncle Charlie and Aunt Joann's house. They live in New York. They spotted it on their own. Then they sent me the pictures.
I think that the hawk just wanted his dinner, so he went after the woodpecker.
Sincerely,
Royce
Dear Royce,
ReplyDeleteI have never seen a bird kill another bird. I have seen 2 birds fighting though. It was interesting. Keep up the good work.
-Tommy
Dear Royce,
ReplyDeleteYour blog is cool. I have never seen two birds try to kill each other.
-Tommy
Wow, that woodpecker was lucky. If Uncle Charlie didn't save him it would have gone 'extinct' *chuckle*
ReplyDeleteI have looked at a lot of other posts, but I found this one the most interesting.
I see 3 different kinds of woodpeckers at my house in Virginia. A redbellied woodpecker, although I don't know why it's called a red bellied when it has a red head instead; red-cockaded woodpecker; and a downy woodpecker----they really love the maple trees. I have also not only saw a red shoulder hawk in flight, but attacking prey. I have also watched a Kestrel knock another bird out of the sky and swoop down and catch it's prey get it set in it's claws and then take off with it's kill....It was really awesome. At my home we see a lot of different types of birds--blue birds, robins, gnat catchers, junco's, cardinals (there is a family of them that live near by) hawks, kestrels, morning doves, crows, ravens, starlings, mocking birds, blue jays, Bald Eagles, Warblers, tit mouse, humming birds, gold finch, catbird, kill dee's, a heron who likes to visit a small pond that is in the woods behind my home and several others that I can't quite think of right off the top of my head. We have even had a very small house sparrow nest in our potted plants not once but twice, and also nest in another spot that we frequently are around, and the starlings like to nest in the eaves of our garage---I live near some woods so it's interesting all the different animals that we have seen over the years, and to watch a family of cardinals grow is pretty priceless in itself...
ReplyDeleteWoodpeckers are cool. Hawks are not. There are so many other things it could be trying to eat. Much like your uncle Charlie, I would also have put a stop to this. Unlike your uncle Charlie, instead of simply running toward it, I would have used some nice buckshot to the head to get my point across to the hawk.
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