Yesterday was a mad dash to accomplish some things before the monsoon arrived in the afternoon. The hourly forecast said the rain would start showing up around 4pm, and it did. Thankfully it was only scattered showers until around 6pm, which bought some time.
I raked the part of the yard where the giant pile of bamboo had been. A good portion of the leaves had come off the branches while the bamboo was parked there
As I was trying to get a tarp to fit over a large pile of sod I had removed from the large new garden space I heard a commotion in the tall holly tree behind me. At the same time, my next door neighbor working in his backyard laughed.
It took me a second to pick out the silhouette of a small hawk perched on the fence beside the tree. My neighbor had seen it plunge straight into the tree at high speed, frightening the large flock of sparrows out of it before it landed on the fence on the other side.
She looked so majestic sitting there...and then she saw the chicken coops. She darted the twenty feet to the cable line that runs directly over both little coops. Both the big and little chicks' runs were totally enclosed with wire but I still felt a bit of panic.
She bobbed on the wire as she looked down on them. I was standing there bemoaning the fact that I didn't have a camera with me and my phone was charging inside. The hawk darted back to the fence behind the thick holly tree and I decided to make a run for the camera in the living room.
When I returned I couldn't see the hawk but my neighbor had kept an eye on it. He pointed her out on the wire over the other next door neighbor's yard. I was able to snap a few pictures before she took flight and disappeared a few streets away.
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| Female Northern Harrier surveying our chickens |
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