Archive for the ‘City Critters’ Category
July 9th, 2008
Ok, I’m satisfied now, they are definitely hawks. I did a little looking around the web and I was pretty sure the birds I saw fit the description, but I had only seen from a distance. Now I’m really sure!
It was very exciting this morning, thinking about hilltops and hawks. I saw one on the sign as I passed by, very cool! but it didn’t fly around, so I went on past. As I was walking, quite a ways away, I heard a sort of slight whooshing noise sort of behind me on the field side, not the traffic side.
I turned and looked just in time to see a hawk land on a fence post no more than 30 feet from where I was standing. It was obscured by the branch of a small bush, but I saw it clearly, met its gaze eye to eye in fact.
It was beautiful!
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July 7th, 2008
Ok, I’m going to ignore the road kill I was going to write about (poor motherless racoon babies) and skip on to the Red Tailed Hawks.
But first, a reality check.
This is what eventually happens to all empty fields around here.
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Ok, now for the Hawks.
I’ve been noticing that different birds hang out in the field at the top of the hill, than in the trees around my house. The other day I saw what I thought might be a hawk, perched on one of those large round hay bails. It was too far away and my photos didn’t show it, but I thought if I watched for it, I might see it again. A friend told me once, if you want to see birds of prey, look up.
So, this morning as I came up the hill toward the empty field, I looked up. Sure enough, there was a hawk perched on a street light.
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July 6th, 2008
I’ve been thinking for months about all the interesting things I see on the way to work, that I could blog about, now I’ve gone blank!!!
Maybe I will start with some photos of the sunrise. My favorite part of the morning commute. I took these last week, July 3rd I think?
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Lest you get the wrong impression and start to think I live out in the country, let me explain. I live in a burb of Dallas. It was out in the country once upon a time, but not anymore. The field I pass by every day is a remnant left over from the days when this area was farmland. (Hog farms I’ve heard, but no one brags about that.)
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