Halloween hawk!

The sky was mostly cloudy with fitful sunshine but darker clouds arrived in the afternoon.  A Cooper's hawk visited at lunch.  It landed on the bench behind the roses so I had to fight the camera for focus.  After a good look around it flew off, spreading its barred tail, but that I did not capture.

Later in the day blue jays and mockingbirds chased each other around the front yard.  The regulars cautiously came to the feeder when the hawk was long gone. 

Many strange critters came to the door in the night, lighted by the first quarter moon.