Yesterday, while out walking my dog, I saw two hawks/ospreys/? gliding low over my neighborhood. I first saw the birds a couple of weeks ago on a beautiful, cool, cloudless morning. On that day, against the clear, deep blue sky they glided in circles and soared on updrafts. I was certain they were watching me even as I marveled at them. Yesterday was overcast and cool and the two were circling at much lower altitude. Very much closer. Again, I stopped and watched them as with hardly a wing beat they glided and circled. I stood mesmerized as one of them folded his/her wings and in an instant dove straight at us. Instinctively, I moved to put my dog behind me as the beautiful bird pulled out of the dive two feet off the ground and thirty feet away from us. It was quite an experience and it happened in the blink of an eye.
Yesterday, while out walking my dog, I saw two hawks/ospreys/? gliding low over my neighborhood. I first saw the birds a couple of weeks ago on a beautiful, cool, cloudless morning. On that day, against the clear, deep blue sky they glided in circles and soared on updrafts. I was certain they were watching me even as I marveled at them. Yesterday was overcast and cool and the two were circling at much lower altitude. Very much closer. Again, I stopped and watched them as with hardly a wing beat they glided and circled. I stood mesmerized as one of them folded his/her wings and in an instant dove straight at us. Instinctively, I moved to put my dog behind me as the beautiful bird pulled out of the dive two feet off the ground and thirty feet away from us. It was quite an experience and it happened in the blink of an eye.