Happy 3rd day of the new year! I'm sure most people are like us: up to their ears in leftovers. Wow. Even when you try to reduce the proportions in a recipe there still seems to be a lot. Of course there are those times when my wife says 'should I make a smaller amount of X' and I say 'no, that's really great. I can deal with the leftovers'. Hmmm. Does the word 'idiot' spring to mind?
We were happily dealing with some of the afore mentioned leftovers yesterday at lunch when my wife looked outside and saw another hawk-pigeon interaction. Yep, another pigeon lunch for the hawk.
This time at least he/she was dining on the rocks so we didn't have a bunch of blood to clean up! I was shooting through the venetian blinds so that's the reason for the blury parts of the photo. The hawk was keeping a pretty good eye on me! Apparently it prefers to dine in private.
It's a pretty bird though. Because of the varigated chest feathers we assume it is rather young. After being sure the pigeon was no longer going to escape the hawk took it's prey off over our wall out into the desert to finish eating. You might think this would give our back yard a bad rep with the local pigeons. Nope!
This was taken 3 minutes after the previous shot. Pigeons sitting on the electric line as though nothing had happened. Hmmm, kind of sounds like some people. Turn your head and what you can't see didn't happen.
Can you tell that things are a little quiet around her these days? My big deal is hoping this old laptop keeps on running for a while. I'd like to go directly to a Windows 10 model but that might be a while. As in so many things only time will tell. Thanks for stopping by. Have a good one.
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