PorterTed was out today, and a Lily Fan caught the action in this 3-minute video https://youtu.be/OYsjWmZbeAI.
Out the window, the birds were on alert. The sharp-shinned hawk with the injured eye was back and doing better. When he or she visited three days ago, it never opened its left eye more than a slit. The roughed up feathers on that side of its head suggest it ran into something. Today, it closed that eye to a slit at times but opened it when birds fluttered by. He never made a pass at them, though, and left after about an hour. 
ChickadeeI hope it gets better and shows more activity.
An e-newspaper article came out in which I expressed my distaste for certain ways of harvesting bears. I am against trapping them because having a foot crushed or bones broken is unnecessarily cruel and it is hard to enforce checking the traps daily, although there is no wounding loss by that method. I am against hounding because of the practice period that can give the bears a 
Sharp-shinned hawksummer of harassment and can catch cubs on the ground as is shown in a video taken by hunters in which the hounds spread eagle a big cub that manages to escape under the roots of a tree. Since one of the goals in the practice period is to teach the hounds to be aggressive toward bears, and a cub would be unlikely to harm the dogs, the hunter repeatedly poked the cub with a stick and made it get out and face the hounds again. That video, when shown to the Minnesota State Legislature, resulted in a resounding no vote on hounding here, and the subject has not come up again. I am against spring hunts because the cubs could be up a tree while the mother is shot, leaving the cubs to starve, which is neither fair chase or a quick kill. I was surprised that Kentucky was having a bear hunt when there are so few bears there that the hunting quota was only 35. That made me ask why they would have a hunt when the available habitat is not close to being filled yet. I don’t believe I said anything about trophy hunting. http://www.vocativ.com/news/286413/bad-news-bear-hunting-is-on-the-rise.
Sharp-shinned hawkI kind of like this (shown above) different shot of Braveheart’s son Porter that a participant snapped in a Black Bear Field Course last August 5. We’re pulling the July 31 to August 3 Black Bear Field Course for this year since no one has signed up yet. If demand develops, we can re-open them. It is a prime time to see a lot of bears if the DNR doesn’t interfere.
Thank you for all you do.
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center