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A Fantastic Bird Day!
Dec. 27th, 2009 07:06 pmDriving the back way to Boulder to visit grandma at Boulder Manor today served to amplify my cabin fever. It was cold yet bright, encouraging ice on the roads to melt while snow on the ground remained seemingly untouched.
Between our house and our destination, I counted an astonishing fourteen hawks, one golden eagle, and two kestrels! Even my parents were enthusiastically keeping track with me on the way back.
Of the fourteen hawks, most were probably red-tailed or Cooper's, as they're the default hawks of the area (they tend to be the most common). There were four red-tails that were close-up, perched on bare branches beside the road. Two close by were Cooper's, sitting atop telephone poles beside the road. The kestrels were on a telephone wire by the road, and one took off gliding low over the field. The golden eagle was off Old Brighton Road, not far from downtown Henderson's tiny post office. In the same spot, on the way home, two red-tails perched together on the same branch.
And the moon! We followed her home the entire return drive. Gorgeous. Simply gorgeous.
Made me entirely keen to bust out and immerse myself in a local nature foray with the boys and take many a photo. It is my desperate desire for this coming Saturday to be warm enough to venture out.
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Between our house and our destination, I counted an astonishing fourteen hawks, one golden eagle, and two kestrels! Even my parents were enthusiastically keeping track with me on the way back.
Of the fourteen hawks, most were probably red-tailed or Cooper's, as they're the default hawks of the area (they tend to be the most common). There were four red-tails that were close-up, perched on bare branches beside the road. Two close by were Cooper's, sitting atop telephone poles beside the road. The kestrels were on a telephone wire by the road, and one took off gliding low over the field. The golden eagle was off Old Brighton Road, not far from downtown Henderson's tiny post office. In the same spot, on the way home, two red-tails perched together on the same branch.
And the moon! We followed her home the entire return drive. Gorgeous. Simply gorgeous.
Made me entirely keen to bust out and immerse myself in a local nature foray with the boys and take many a photo. It is my desperate desire for this coming Saturday to be warm enough to venture out.
Would anyone like a DreamWidth.org invite code?
Mad loot roll-call:
( Read more... )
Much love to you all! Dream sweetly.
