{"id":129,"date":"2009-09-20T14:41:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T19:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2009\/09\/20\/090920_hawk\/"},"modified":"2022-03-13T20:22:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T01:22:35","slug":"090920_hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/09\/20\/090920_hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Morning Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was sitting on our front porch after breakfast, accompanied by a Bible and a cup of coffee – both being essential to Sunday morning (or any<\/i> morning, for that matter) – enjoying the beautiful weather. The street light at the corner of our yard was decorated with five or six Mexican doves basking in the sunshine.<\/p>\n

My reverie was interrupted by the sound of frantic flapping as the birds exploded away from their metal perch and I looked up, wondering what had caused their alarm. Just then, a young hawk arrived from the east, swooping down and alighting where the doves had previously stood. I mentally kicked myself for once again forgetting to bring the camera, but he was perfectly content to sit and watch the other birds flying quickly past, studiously avoiding him. I crept back inside, grabbed the Canon, returned to my chair and snapped a dozen or so photos before he flew across the vacant lot and perched in a tree by the north pond.<\/p>\n


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