New Year's morning we woke to the shrill of hawks calling to each other. Some were far away in the valley and some were in our own backyard. I looked out from the deck and saw this guy in a dead tree down our creek. His tail looked like a raccoons.
He let me get quite close but kept and eye on what I was doing. After about 40 photos, my bare feet were beginning to freeze to the ground but one second later another hawk flew into a nearby tree. They are Red-shouldered Hawks and smaller than a Red-tailed Hawk.
She was a bit smaller than the first hawk so I am assuming this one is female and the first is a male.
He watched her as she called to him and then they both flew away together.......how romantic to start 2019 off with a whirlwind romance!
"If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans."
--Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
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