Several people have emailed wildlife sightings:

On December 31, Jeanne Desy wrote:

We had a full-size but immature red-tailed hawk in our back yard today for a long time, and Mu (black cat belonging to Carters) crouched under our back deck for a long, long time, and a squirrel clung upside down and motionless on an oak. Otherwise, nothing moved until . . .

eventually the hawk plummeted down and came up with a mouse. Three blue jays bombed him, trying to save it, perhaps recognizing the squeaks as similar to their own babies’ cries, but the hawk ignored them. Clearly though, he is going to need more than a mouse a day to make it through, though right now he was nice and plump, so he resumed his watchful scanning. Nature is.

On January 2, Laure Nordholt  of Overbrook near Indianola wrote:

I wanted to let you know that my son and I saw a fox in our back yard near the ravine about 5 nights ago.

Very amazing and most excellent.

On January 14, Georgia Blum Herminghausen wrote that she looked out her second story window and saw a Cooper’s Hawk a few feet away holding a house sparrow.