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\"\"<\/a>This past week I witnessed a pair of red tail hawks circling above The Bishop\u2019s Ranch two times in two days.\u00a0 Now hawk sightings and more often hawk hearings, are not uncommon here but two days in a row made me stop and ponder their purpose.\u00a0 Both days I saw them flying near the aptly named Hawk Hill.\u00a0 They caught my attention the first day circling fairly low, low enough to see the lovely russet color of their tails glowing in the early afternoon sun.\u00a0 They rose slowly higher and higher toward the sun, catching the air thermals in their graceful dance.\u00a0 Had they been Icarus they would have surly fallen by now, so high they seemed to brush the very sun with their clever wings.\u00a0 I am not a hawk expert but I imagined they were hunting to feed their newly hatched young.\u00a0 I let myself imagine that the female had just then lifted her weight from the nest as she felt the tremor and cracking eggs below her warm body.\u00a0 I imagined the male leaving his guard station to climb the skies in search of food for his so to be hungry brood.\u00a0 But now they were simply enjoying the ride.\u00a0 Taking a well deserved break, as any parent of a young child can attest, a break from the greedy, squawking beaks they had waited so long to see.\u00a0 Now it seemed to me was pure joy, riding the air like few creatures of the earth can imagine, in turn with the wind, and unseen currents flowing around, above and below.\u00a0 This week I will watch the skies for this pair to reveal themselves again, to ponder how they fit into the puzzle of this place, and to perhaps, if I\u2019m lucky, to feel the lifting warm air under my own wings and give myself permission to take flight.<\/p>\n

In my internet wanderings I found a site a wonderful site with a live camera on a nesting pair of hawks in New York City.\u00a0 Their nest is on the window ledge on the 12th<\/sup> floor of an NYU administrative office.\u00a0 The female hawk has plastic tangle around her leg.\u00a0 Since I found the site on Friday I have been checking in daily the chicks just started hatching this weekend!\u00a0 Check it out:<\/em> http:\/\/www.livestream.com\/nytnestcam<\/a><\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t get a decent photo of the hawks in flight here at The Bishop\u2019s Ranch.\u00a0 Here is a link to the photo\u2019s original source:<\/em> http:\/\/www.komonews.com\/news\/photos\/46326602.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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