Area Birders, Wednesday morning, 11/10/04 while sitting at the dining room table, my wife and I heard a loud thump against the kitchen window, and through the glass door of the dining room I saw the birds scatter in all directions from the feeders. I jumped up just in time to see a Mourning Dove land belly up on the ground just outside the door. Within a fraction of a second a male Sharp-shinned was on it pinning it to the ground. A couple of seconds later the dove suddenly regained its senses and managed to escape the hawk's talons. It disappeared from sight around the house with the hawk in hot pursuit. The Sharpie must not have been able to catch it because within 10 minutes the hawk was back, looking for more prey. It hung around aggravating the birds for two hours. It was back again at 2:00 sitting in the cherry tree which holds the feeders, but I never saw it catch anything else. Here are a couple of photos I took from the kitchen window.http://www.bcplnet.org/birdclub/gallery/Sharp3.htm I very slowly slid the horizontal window open ( It took 2 minutes). The Sharpie was looking directly at me when I took the second photo, but remained on its perch. I took several photos and the bird did not fly, even when I carefully slid the window closed. Enjoy the birds, Roger Mayhorn Grundy, VA Buchanan County ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST Bristol Birds Net Photo Gallery located at: http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jwcoffeyy/album?.dir=/efd5 This is a regional birding list sponsored by the Bristol Bird Club to facilitate communications between birders and bird clubs of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. -------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to Bristol-Birds. To post to this mailing list, simply send an email to: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send an email to bristol-birds-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the one word 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. -------------------------------------------------- Wallace Coffey, Moderator wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (423)764-****