Flashes of Panic

The stretch of state highway which I travel back and forth to work (when I’m driving) seems to be popular with raptors, or at least one raptor. Yesterday, on my way home, I spotted a bird sitting in a tree near the road which looked like the red-tailed hawk which gave us a show back in January. I’ve seen him a few times in the last few weeks; this stretch of road is surrounded by farms, so the road’s right of way is the narrow strip with trees. I imagine he can sit there and keep a good eye on the open ground, looking for small animals poking out to check the snow depth and evaluate their foraging opportunities.

Then I saw another one very much like him, not a half-mile down the road. How many hawks can one road support? Maybe I’m mis-identifying some vultures waiting for road-kill?

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