A new backyard visitor

Much to our surprise, we had two visits from a gorgeous hawk in our backyard bird-feeding area this week. We've identified him as a juvenile Red-Shouldered Hawk, and being a youngster, he doesn't seem to have figured out how to catch our songbirds. He watched them for a long while, but didn't make a move. Later, Barry saw him at the birdbath.

What a handsome bird, and a very unusual sighting for our yard, normally inhabited only by mulitudinous hummingbirds and goldfinches this time of year!