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[oakenguy]

Observed on the walk to work today: a red-tailed hawk gliding low over the parking lot before landing on top of the geology building, another one following about twenty feet behind. The second one seems tentative to the point that D and I crack jokes about how one of them's a 'morning hawk' who's waiting for the other one's coffee to kick in.

We look back, and they are TOTALLY GETTING IT ON.

3.5 seconds later, the morning hawk does a pair of slow victory loops overhead. Smug bastard. Pigeons scatter.

Comments

[majes.livejournal.com]

Ah, spring!
Yeah, our local hawks are frisky as well.

[temperlj.livejournal.com]

Nature RAWKS! :)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Birds do it...bees do it...even smug morning raptors do it...

[clionona.livejournal.com]

It's springtime and the birds are feeling frisky!
Nice!
♥

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

You know, I have this whole internal system of raptor oracles that vary with the situation and how I see the raptor and what the raptor is doing and things like that.

I don't even know WHERE TO BEGIN with this one.

Um. Good omen? :)

[rantarn.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't really call 3.5 secs much of a victory. Not for the female hawk anyway. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, but if your mate jumped on your back with 6 razor sharp talons and started going to town, 3.5 seconds would be slow and painful. :D

if all goes well, we can expect to see 2-3 adorable baby red-tails in a short time. :P

-PalusButeo, who still can't get his password reset.

[(Anonymous)]

sorry, make that 8 talons. :P

[plastickitty.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha. It`s that time of year. I remember last year seeing a couple of sparrows get it on. I thought, "Oh hello little---OMG!!! This is the first time I`ve seen birds do it in the wild!" I felt like David Attenborough.