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Encounter With a Hawk
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I had an encounter with a hawk yesterday — although I am not sure it was so much an encounter as just a mere sighting. I was sitting at my desk in my office writing when I looked out the window in front of my desk and I saw a big bird sitting on the power line across the street.
‘Big’ is a relative term, of course. The bird was not very big for a hawk — although there are ‘small’ hawks such as goshawks and kites. But compared to the doves and sparrows and other common birds sitting on the power lines (but not too close to the big bird) this bird was about three times bigger. The big bird was sitting on the line facing towards me and it was in the shadow of a very large tree so I could not make out exactly what it was.
My eyes stayed focused on the bird waiting for it to take off in flight. Then I would be better able to identify it. Of course identifying birds is not that important to me. I’m not an ornithologist. I’m just an avid bird lover, a bird freak. But I definitely wanted to know if it was some kind of hawk.
Hawks are one of my ‘special animal friends.’ Doesn’t ‘special animal friend’ sound better and more acceptable than, ‘spirit totem animals?’
Anyway, my special animal friends include hawks, mountain lions, wolves, and whooping cranes (among others). Any…
