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Yosemite under Orion's gaze

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Days of Wine and Raptors


I saw the juvenile hawks flying away from their nest for the first time this morning. I saw them together on an old dead branch as I left the valley in the morning drizzle. They stood hunched over like little cartoon vultures.


They have made a lot of progress in the last ten days and are much more confident. Their mother swooped in to make sure that everything was okay when I stopped in front of the nest. One of the birds flew about sixty yards away to the top of a tall sycamore.


2 comments:

grumpy said...

right next to the tennis courts at the community center is a grove of very tall trees, mostly eucalyptus, in which huge swarms of black crows congregate, and the noise they generate with their bird calls can be deafening...

Sanoguy said...

Thanks so much for including that great whale story and photo!! Both are truly fabulous!!