Last week, I saw a Mockingbird in the garden on the south side of the Cathedral, and knew it was only a matter of time before I’d see a confrontation between this Mockingbird and a Red-tailed Hawk near the nest.  (This is a different Mockingbird than the one that harassed the Red-tail on 110th Street.)

This morning the female adult was about twenty feet from the nest when a Mockingbird attacked.  After acting like the Mockingbird was nothing more than an annoying insect, the Red-tailed moved north to a St. Luke’s Hospital perch.