One was in my backyard, I’m sitting inside on the phone and see a hawk land on a low branch near my backyard, not far from where I’m sitting. I hang up, grab the video cam and go out the front and sneak around to the back. A small deck is off my bedroom provided a blind, so I started filming and zoomed in pretty close. Beautiful bird sitting there and she calls out once twice, and I hear her call answered, and another hawk swoops in beside her, flutters once and mounts her … they do the birdy deed and he flies off … and I had it all close up on video 😀
A few weeks ltr I’m on campus where I took classes and worked and was walking to my car in the afternoon. I walk by a church with a steeple and look up and see a hawk land on the top ( I think there was a weather vane on the tip) and as I’m looking at it, another hawk swoops in and they do the birdy deed. I just stand there transfixed, realizing it must be hawk mating season .
Once on thanksgiving day was driving through the countryside and saw a hawk flying low over a field with a snake in its talons … wished it a happy tday and drove on …
Last, attended a family reunion on Lake Mattamuskeet during the swan gathering, thousands of swans, and several pelicans, and many eagle. But mostly the swans …
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