Backyard bird watching

[Raven]

those red onion bags are super for beef suet feeders
so say the woodpeckers as they like how easy it is to
latch on to. i've never really questioned the price of beef suet
because i could tell i was getting more for my buck than squares

[Sundowner]

I was digging up a small stump in the yard today and came across basically a baseball size and form of grubs, threw them under one of the bird feeders and before I walked the 30' back to the stump all sorts of birds were going ballistic until the grackles showed up and ravaged them. A little while later I looked up and saw something chasing a dove through the trees, they were "moving". Just saw the white underbelly, no time to see the tail. Alot of that going on in my yard lately. 3 weeks ago I looked out and saw a red tail almost smashing into the front window. It came through the middle of 2 spruces that the branches are 10' in front of the window. I could see the whole bottom of the bird, its wing span from a foot away looked like it was 10'!!! Almost messed myself