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Neighborhood Hawks
The convenience of the high trees! The air’s buoyancy and the sun’s ray Are of advantage to me; And the earth’s face upward for my inspection. My feet are locked upon the rough…
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Hawks and faith
We have several hawks in our neighborhood this year, but next to no redtails. (Very unusual.) In our yard we’ve seen both a juvenile Cooper’s hawk (nabbing a robin) and a mature one…
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Wild Wings
We discovered Gill Lewis’ Wild Wings on the new books rack at the library yesterday. “Hey look,” I said, handing it to my 10-year-old, “it’s about an osprey.” She checked it out, and…
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Splendor and sorrow
Tonight as we were eating supper, we were dazzled by the sudden emergence of a Baltimore oriole out of the brush. It was pursuing a moth and demonstrated some amazing maneuvering. What a…
