Wednesday, November 2, 2011

The Hawk that Survived

I've been sick for the last few days. Isn't being sick and pregnant the worst??? Tylenol just doesn't cut it. At all.
Anyway, I was nursing my sniffles by resting on my bed and all of a sudden.....SLAM! A bird rams into my sliding glass door. I saw it hit and assumed it was a pigeon because there are quite a few pigeons in our yard eating up olives. I got up and looked and sure enough there was a bird...still alive mind you....laying on the ground right in front of my window. Only it wasn't a pigeon. It was a little hawk. Sad! I thought for sure he was a goner. He wasn't moving, his wings were all sprawled out and he was breathing real fast. Well, I hate seeing things suffer like that so I pulled my curtains so that I wouldn't have to see and so that another bird wouldn't meet the same fate. A bit later I went to check on it and it was laying there in the same position only it was breathing real light and it's eyes were closed. Well, then I knew he was dying. I opened my door and startled him and he jumped up and ran off real fast. Startled me! I didn't see where he went, but I notice a little dead dove laying in about the same spot the hawk was. I'm assuming he had captured it or was chasing it or in some way was about to make a meal of that little bird. The dove was most definitely dead. I walked out into my living room and looked out back and there was that little hawk, sitting on my pool fence. Well then I took some pictures and I'm pretty sure that crazy bird survived! Check it out!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh my gosh!! He is so beautiful!!!

Anonymous said...

Those feathers look like good fishing flies to me.
Uncle Bubba