Just had a close encounter with a peregrine about an hour ago.

They are just amazing beautiful creatures. Kinda yucky to find pigeon parts in the parking deck but that's nature.

I was at the window when one approached to take nectar from the flowers in front of the bushes. It hesitated when it saw me and hoovered, then darted to the side, hoovered some more, then darted back to where she was. She did this a couple more times probably to see if I would move. Couldn't have been more than four feet from the window. I had a great view!

I had one of the birds set up a nest in my back yard one summer and got to see her around every fifteen minutes or so. She got to the point where she got use to us and as long as we went about our business she didn't pay us any attention.

And one of them approached me at night. It was something that was too big to be a bug. it kept coming in and hoovering around my head, and then changed position. Like it was trying to figure out, "what the fuck is this?"

Geese fly in a "V" formation........






....do hummingbirds travel in a "HUM-V"?

It's that time of year where there are baby bunnies EVERYWHERE!!! Shortly before the flyover, my wife and I were having a conversation with a young one that was casually munching less than 8 feet away. Fortunately it decided to move into some nearby shade for a nap before the falcon came by or we would have been treated to a rather unpleasant visual experience instead.

...I was driving thru rural area near my aunt's house when I saw a movement over in a nearby pasture. Stopped to look, and saw a large bird moving around oddly, with one wing extended. Thinking it migh be injured, I got out and walked over to it. To my surprise, I saw a big red-tailed hawk on the ground with a big black king snake coiled around it. I think the hawk had seen the snake and decided it would make a good dinner, but before it could escape, the snake got coiled around it so it couldn't fly. The snake had its fangs in the hawks leg, and the hawk had its talons on the snake in a death grip. I grabbed the snake behind its head, and with some difficulty, got it unwrapped from the hawk. The hawk flew off to a nearby tree, cussing at me for taking his dinner away.

It was an amazing episode, to see these two wild creatures in a life-or-death struggle.