Showing posts with label redtailed hawks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label redtailed hawks. Show all posts

Monday, November 21, 2016

For the Last Week


Our new kitty, Sister, has come up out of the basement and joined the family. 
We all sit together in the evening and watch tv... and Sister sleeps at 
the foot of my bed.  Jester sleeps next to me... Bed Hog.... and Lilly sleeps in the 
doorway until early in the morning and then jumps up with the rest of us. 

This cat has brought so much happiness into my life, Keith loved cats, and he would have 
loved Sister.  I found her, you remember, at the hospital parking lot during his last stay. 
Friend Jill is convinced she is his spirit animal. 

I am not so sure she is not. 



I am seeing this redtail regularly now at 155th and Fairmount.... it is a very dangerous road to stop on, so I have to hurry when I snap a picture of it. 


Here is one of my favorite shots, taken on the 12th... Stranger Creek at the bluffs on Leavenworth Road.  I stopped on the way to church that night.  I'll have another shot of this later. 


I took this on the way home that night, it was so beautiful... the supermoon rising.  See the hawk on the pole on the right? 


Here is what was interesting... I was standing under another hawk, taking the pictures.  Usually, they do not hunt so closely. 


This makes me laugh every time I drive by.  You see, the deer was the very first thing in the tree, why, oh, why did I not get a picture of it?  These folks decorate every year, they bring a cherry picker in to do the top of the tree.  The deer now has a red glowing nose on him, they are very creative. 


The begonia is still blooming in the window of the tv room. 


I have visitors on the back deck again, and have been enjoying watching them. 


Now, here is the same scene I showed you above of Stranger Creek. 
I took this Saturday afternoon on my way to church. 


The chair was over to the left in this picture.  I saw no one around... and no cars around.  
I don't like to be in a place where someone can sneak up on me, so.. I got back in the car and left. 

Interesting, it might be a photographer who is being patient to get his shots. 


This was the park Saturday afternoon... today was a much gloomier picture, we have heavy clouds and expect rain tomorrow.  We need it! 


This is gomphrena at the Ag Hall.  They kindly agreed to let me get some seeds today, so I am going to plant some next year.  I think this is Strawberry Fields, but I am not sure. 


White gomphrena.  I got some seeds of this, too. 



Our girl Lil has found a place where something is living below ground, and she heads there everytime we go out the front door. 



Jester was with us too, we were on our way to the park. 

Tomorrow, we go see Dr. Tom for a pawdicure.  I suspect we are not going to get our walk 
at the park because of rain. 


Sunday, December 27, 2015

A Few Wildlife Shots

Christmas Day dawned foggy and cold. 


I hadn't even seen this cobweb on the porch until it was outlined in frost. 


The mums in the driveway planters were all lined with rime, too. 


I was on my way to church at 8... (for 9 AM service) hoping to see a few animals, and had gone around the first corner and saw these! 

For once, no one was behind me! 


I saw them on the way home from church farther out in a field about a quarter mile down the road


It was a lovely ride to church. 

My family tradition was to go on Christmas Morning, never on Christmas Eve. 


I saw this hawk as I got closer to home after church... you see I had to lighten it up considerably just to show it to you. 


The 26th was still cloudy but the dogs and I were able to get out and walk. 

There are literally thousands of geese on the farm ponds around here now. 


We tried to walk today... but... as you see... the winds were strong.  


We didn't make it very far... Jester and I were just too cold. 


You do not see me. 


No, really, you do not see me. 


You still cannot see me. 

At this point, as I laughed, he flew off farther into the trees. 


There are still mallards on the little cow pond. 


Here they are a little closer. 


I stayed too long, and scared them. 


But I watched from up the road, and they circled right back around. 

Do they know the bad weather is coming tonight? 


This is the big pond near our house... there were literally hundreds around it today.  I am 
not sure any of these are spending the nights there, I think they are heading for the big open water at Wyandotte County Lake.  I am watching for them in the skies. 

We are about to go into a Winter Storm Warning at 6 PM, until tomorrow morning. 
It is our first of the year, and I am praying all my friends who must work tomorrow 
will make it there safely and back. 

I hope everyone had a good Christmas, 
and here's to coasting through the rest of the year!