Neighborhood Falcon

This photo doesn't really do it justice.

I was walking back from coffee and saw the perfect silhouette of a bird on the side of a house.  I realised that the bird must be very very close because the shadow was large and defined.

That's when I saw the falcon perched in a tree.  It was may 15 feet away from me.  By the time I got my cell phone camera out, she had hopped up the same tree so was still close but not like at first.

I heard birds still chirping and singing which I thought was odd with this major predator bird so close.  That's when I noticed the bush next to the sidewalk had about half dozen sparrows in it.  They were not about to fly out even though I was standing right next to them.

I love my neighborhood.