I was outside today picking up sticks and pine cones from our Christmas snowstorm when I heard a rustle in the row of tall pine trees to the left of me. I looked up and was surprised by a huge Hawk flying right over my head. His wingspan must have been 5 feet, we have a Summer Hawk and a larger Winter Hawk here, and since this was alone like the latter likes to travel I assume that's what he was, and he actually brushed through the tops of the pine trees. I don't know if that was by accident or if he was hunting. He then flew in slow motion due south across my yard, and I could see his relation to the prehistoric Raptors in his beak and eyes. John Denver sang about how "I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an Eagle fly" and while we have an Eagle breeding program here as well, the Hawk can hold his own as a most impressive bird of prey. I turned my head for a moment and he was hundreds of yards away, deceptively fast and swooping low to the ground.
I was outside today picking up sticks and pine cones from our Christmas
snowstorm when I heard a rustle in the row of tall pine trees to the left of me.
I looked up and was surprised by a huge Hawk flying right over my head. His
wingspan must have been 5 feet, we have a Summer Hawk and a larger Winter
Hawk here, and since this was alone like the latter likes to travel I assume that's
what he was, and he actually brushed through the tops of the pine trees. I don't know if that was by accident or if he was hunting.
He then flew in slow motion due south across my yard, and I could see his relation to the prehistoric Raptors in his beak and eyes. John Denver sang
about how "I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an Eagle fly" and
while we have an Eagle breeding program here as well, the Hawk can hold
his own as a most impressive bird of prey.
I turned my head for a moment and he was hundreds of yards away, deceptively fast and swooping low to the ground.