Tag Archives: Cape Cod Birding

Red-Bellied Woodpecker Enjoying Some Grape Jelly At Our Home On Cape Cod

This Red-Bellied Woodpecker certainly enjoyed the dish of grape jelly at our home the other day. Baltimore Orioles are supposed to eat grape jelly, not all of the other birds. But, I guess when you have a choice of bird seed, suet or grape jelly, they all like the grape jelly the best!

Cute photograph of him, don’t you think?

Red-Tailed Hawk Catching Lunch In Our Yard!

We were in the yard yesterday when we heard some screeching. We both looked up and there were 2 Red-tailed hawks on a branch in the tall tree. One was keeping guard while the other one was killing her prey. We could hear the baby hawk nearby crying for food.

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While the one on the left stood guard, the one with the prey put its wings all around it while she killed it. You can see it in the photograph. It was quite a sight. I have never seen anything quite like this before.

She then ate her share and then the hawk on the left finished it off. I guess it’s all part of the food chain…

Red-Tailed Hawk In My Bird Bath Again On Cape Cod!

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I know I already posted some photographs of this same Red-Tailed Hawk in my birdbath, but these new ones are priceless!

I heard some noise outside the other day about dinnertime so I opened the slider to see what it was and this Red-Tailed Hawk was staring at me from the bird bath!

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The first photograph is of him staring at me, the 2nd one is of him with his beak wide open and the last one is of him gargling after he had taken a drink of water from the bird bath. How funny! And during all this, he jumped in the bath and got all wet and shook off his feathers. It was hilarious! He was in there for quite some time.

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The photographs are all taken from inside the house, but came out much clearer than the last batch!

Pretty cool, huh?