Tuesday

There is a beautiful larger-sized bird at my work that we keep seeing.

Sometimes he/she has a critter clutched firmly in her talons.  Sometimes she is perched high up in a tree watching us go by.

Yesterday she stopped on a branch just a few feet away from me, scaring the bejesus out of me as I walked by the trees lining our village trail.  She let me snap a photo of her on my phone.  She watched me carefully as I inched closer and closer.  Then as I walked away, she turned to watch me then too.

She is magnificent and powerful and I will no doubt look for her each time I am outside.  She *allowed* me to photograph her.

I've never worked so close to so many natural critters (birds of prey, bugs galore and every little furry creature known to man).  It is pretty cool sometimes.

I think she is a Broad-Winged Hawk.