The recent big snows that have hit us, also have brought quite a few phone calls from people asking about wildlife in winter. For those mule deer “pets” hanging around Sisters and Bend, it is tough going when the snow gets deep. They’ve lost all the benefits of kitchen and flower-garden left-overs buried deep under […]
Jim Anderson
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A Hawk by Any Other Name
Kestrels’ close links to dinosaurs
You’ve probably seen those little “hawks” that perch on power lines. Well, they’re actually falcons, and, from my experience, they’ll eat anything. You have to agree; the other day—at 15-degrees below zero—I watched a healthy-looking adult female perched on the power line just east of Sisters, in the process of gulping down what appeared to […]