Yesterday morning I was working in Riverside where a pair of hawks (or maybe they're falcons?) have moved into the neighbourhood. I was busy pruning a large ninebark when I noticed this one in the backyard devouring grasshoppers....mmmm, grasshoppers for breakfast!
A little later I talked to Dave, the next-door neighbour, and he said that just a few days ago two of them were enjoying a shower under his oscillating sprinkler while feasting on grasshoppers. That's the life!
Photographed in Medicine Hat, Alberta on July 22, 2023.
Yummy!
ReplyDeleteMmmm, mmmm good!
DeleteThe breakfast of kings - or at least those in the bird world anyway.
ReplyDeleteThey won't be running out of food anytime soon. Scads of grasshoppers around here this year.
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