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22 Tuesday Aug 2023

Posted by sulis303 in garden, life, loss, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, claws, Cooper’s Hawk, flying, garden, kerfuffle, moments, nature, pergola, sparrow, widow

last week I watched a hawk chase a sparrow down the lane… I didn’t hear any screeching, so was hopeful that the sparrow made it to safety…

on Saturday, I was quietly sitting on the back deck, drinking my tea and reading when I heard a kerfuffle…

suddenly, a juvenile Cooper’s hawk came off the shelf in the pergola by the driveway gate… it had a sparrow in its claws…

it flew to the ledge on the main deck with its prize… after sitting there for quite a few minutes I walked over to get it to leave the garden… I got very close to it before it finally decided to fly up to the wires above the deck, and then, away…

the whole time it was in the garden the sparrows and chickadees were sounding the alarm…

hope it doesn’t come back again…

kerfuffle…

18 Saturday Dec 2021

Posted by sulis303 in life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, helicopter, kerfuffle, light, moments, night, police, sounds, widow

in the middle of the night I woke up to what sounded like the snow plows cleaning the street…

but there hadn’t been any snowfall that needed removal…

I lay there listening for a while, but eventually I had to see what the kerfuffle was all about…

I could see lights through the bedroom window so went downstairs to have a better look…

it was a bit disconcerting because I could see a police car sitting down the street in the middle of the road…

there were flashing lights on the next street from another police or fire vehicle…

and a spotlight was shining down from the police helicopter…

as I watched for quite a while, and eventually listened from back in bed, the helicopter flew in circles with the light shining down all around the houses close to me…

the light flashed into the bedroom a number of times…

I felt nervous and didn’t want to sleep for a while so I watched a cooking show until all was quiet and hopefully whoever or whatever they had been looking for was caught or gone…

haven’t heard anything about it today…

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