I was driving home today

Tweet

And was sitting at a light. Suddenly, from under the freeway dropped 2 birds, fighting. Feathers flew. Finally one flew off in a rain of feathers and the other landed on the ground. I first thought - pigeons fighting at this time of year? Then I realized that the one standing on the ground was NO pigeon. It was a hawk. Not a real BIG hawk, but a hawk of some sort. "Wow!" I thought. "How many times is a city gal like me going to see something like that?" Oh sure, hawks catch pigeons and other birds. I sometimes see smaller birds harrying hawks away from areas. But I've NEVER seen a hawk actually ATTACKING another bird. I can only hope that the pigeon wasn't injured too badly, maybe this is why I sometimes see dead pigeons on the sides of roads - they are injured by a hawk and then get hit by a car or truck (tho I did once see a pigeon sucked down by a big truck and die.) Then, yesterday, we were driving along and saw hawks sitting on the lights - one on each side of the light actually, so it was kind of a "two-fer" hawk sighting. Not the first interesting sight at a light, but have you you spotted something interesting lately? Some unexpected bit of nature where you are? (Oh, the two-fer had a dead deer on the medium under the light.)