wildlife

Thanks to Steve for sending this beautiful shot:

“Spotted in Petworth, near 8th and Shepherd. Let’s hope it gets to work on our huge rat population. And there’s the rub: people want to poison the nuisance rats, which is understandable. But poisoning rats poisons rat predators like hawks. Fewer predators, more rats. I don’t know the answer, but we’re not going to poison our way out of this.”

If you spot a hawk or any interesting wildlife around town, lunching or otherwise, and get a good photo please send in an email where you spotted it to [email protected] and I’ll add it to the queue. Hawks around Town is made possible by a generous grant from the Ben and Sylvia Gardner foundation.

Photo by Jeff Jamawat

Thanks to Jeff for sending this awesome shot above from Shaw earlier this morning.

And Sam duPont sends the great shot below from near the 9:30 Club: (more…)

Thanks to David for sending “a peregrine falcon from Barnaby Woods”.

If you spot a hawk or any interesting wildlife around town, lunching or otherwise, and get a good photo please send in an email where you spotted it to [email protected] and I’ll add it to the queue. Hawks around Town is made possible by a generous grant from the Ben and Sylvia Gardner foundation.