My friend Marie took this photo of a broad-winged hawk on her back porch in Vermont the other day – not the first time she’d seen it recently. Her observation intrigued me. She said: “I wondered why I was suddenly seeing a raptor so close to the house. I watched it and realized it was watching the compost heap. Do hawks eat kitchen scraps? No! But who does eat kitchen scraps? Rodents!
“The compost was attracting mice and the hawk had found a good perch for hunting the mice.”
got a photo, and then went further, asking why the bird was there and working out the answer. We don’t have to stray far from our homes to learn about the natural world!
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