Windows as weapons

Twice Three times today a hawk has chased its prey toward windows in the house, making for a lot of noise and hawk chow. At 12:40 this afternoon both Karla and I were startled by an especially loud bang as the quail shown above collided with the “greenhouse” window above the three-half-barrel fountain, then fell into the water. The hawk was pulling the quail out of the water as I opened the door and frightened it away. He dropped the bird. Not even a half-hour later, another window claimed another bird’s life. A busy hawk, for sure.

Update—As I write this I heard yet another bird strike. Good grief! We’re going to have a very fat hawk, or a nest-full of well-fed hawk babies.