Thursday, July 29, 2021

Red Red Robins

 Two clutches of robins hatched on my son's deck this spring.  When they tried to nest for a third clutch, my son put up some passive resistance in the form of a box in the place where they liked to nest.  Even two clutches of robins is a lot of robins for one yard.  Still, I have not noticed robins around the yard much since the nesting stopped.

Then last week, my daughter in law spotted a very persistent Cooper's hawk hanging around the deck.  It seemed to be eyeing a rabbit.  Generally, rabbits are too big for Cooper's hawks to kill.  But, I looked up the main diet for Cooper's hawks.  It seems that they eat a lot of robins.

I guess that answers the question--what has happened to all the robins that were hatched around here?

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