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Option number on comes from the sky~

This beautiful red tail Hawk was a bit unhappy with me as he cast a final piercing glance back over his shoulder to make sure I understood that he did not appreciate my interrupting his snack time.

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Option number 2 comes from the water

and this reptile unlike the hawk above was more than happy that I had come along, and let it be known that I was welcome for dinner any time

I have seen a few different alligators since we got to south Texas.. love the personality that they each are so full of.. Pretty amazing creatures indeed.

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Thank you~

Sunday is Mother’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day to all the beautiful women in the world..

Busy week ahead.. but going  to spread my wings and welcome it with open arms!

Stumbled upon this beautiful Redtail feeding on a cotton tail in the tall grass while I was out with our son yesterday.. he held real still for a long time hoping that he was invisible..

I wonder if I that tactic will work for me.. If I hold really, really still and don’t make eye contact…..

Working at my computer, I often get lost looking out my windows at the beautiful world around me.. Spring is here, and I am greeted each morning with an amazing sunrise..beautiful bird songs and an array of wildlife. This year a pair of very vocal Kestrel have returned to the nest box on the hill.. I like to think that maybe it is the little male I released a few years back, as he was born in that very same nest box which has been empty since.. and you would have to spend some time in my yard to understand, just how “vocal” this little male is..

On one of my morning walks, I spooked some chukar  out of the low growing juniper, only to realize that there was a pair of golden eagles soaring over head using my passage  to locate their next meal.. Along the Creek there is also a pair of  Redtail Hawks that have been busy carrying building material to their soon to be nest in the top of an old cottonwood tree.. I have heard the great horned owls mournful call at night but have not spotted them yet this year..

Will make for some interesting hunting when the babies are all born.. I know one thing for sure, I would not want to be a small furry animal in this valley in a few months.

 

Feathers slice through clear cold air  directly overhead, nearly silent, in the early dawn among  quietly falling snowflakes. I am always amazed by the movements of the natural world and the creatures who inhabit our planet. From the majestic hawk to the vole scurrying underfoot, nature moves with a rhythm and grace we as humans have become far removed from.  As I stand in the forest soaking up all the sights, sounds, smells and majesty of it all, I am reminded of my place in this never ending spiral of life.  Bright red tail feathers contrast sharply with the grey tree limbs and white blanket of new fallen snow as the hawk slips through the forest canopy. I can only imagine the freedom of his silent flight, as the forest engulfs me and the cold bites my flesh. My footfalls sound foreign against the earth, announcing to the forest that I am passing through. Somehow, as I tread through the deepening snow, my spirit begins to soar with the hawk.  In my minds eye I am part of it all, slipping quietly through the forest our wings nearly touching. Yes the Hawk and I are related, brothers of the earth, sons of the spiral, kindred spirits of the forest.  Silent wings slice through the clear cold air!

~ Mike “Hawk” Huston ~ High Country Archer

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Rise and shine! The weekend is almost over….. lol