Last night the wife and I decided to take a walk around the neighborhood. One street over there are farms with cows, horses and chickens… so we headed out in that direction to see if any of the “critters” were out. There were some cows chomping away on one guy’s parcel but they ignored us. The horse that’s usually out was tucked away in his barn… so the whole thing was pretty much a bust even if we did get the blood moving. It wasn’t until we were walking up our own driveway that we actually saw something cool, an owl swept across the trees that line the creek behind the house. We see them pretty rarely… but we hear them all the time. It’s the same way with the family of hawks that live back there… but anyway, this guy was perched on a tree in the middle of the yard about ten feet over our heads and didn’t seem the least bit intimidated by the humans pointing from below. Here are a couple of pictures that we managed to take (I can’t believe the sucker WAITED for his close up!). Forgive the focus, it was dusk and the autofocus threw a fit.
Now, if the hawks would just be so kind as to cooperate… we could have a whole section on birds of prey!
