We are enjoying another glorious day here, weather-wise. We got up this morning and headed out to our favorite park, for the third time in less than a week! On the way there, I spotted something quite unusual in one of the yards we were passing.
It was a sharp-shinned hawk (correct, birding PisecoSis?) with a very recent kill. For some reason that we could not figure out, the hawk was sitting in the yard, only a few feet from the curb and rush of traffic, for several long minutes. We turned the van around and came back to look, and of course I took pictures. We had a very long and up-close chance to observe the hawk before he finally took off, carrying his prey with him.
We continued on to the park, where we spent nearly two hours exploring the stream, and a rocky outcropping in particular. We collected several fossils (crinoids and brachiopods, we believe) and interesting rocks, made dams and big splashes and started teaching JediBoy how to skip rocks.
Boys being boys, JediBoy found a “gun stick” and passed it over to Pappy, who whittled it to make it even more gun-like, and hollowed out a bit of the barrel. Don’t get me started on my nature-versus-nurture gender-roles rant! They had fun with it, anyway.
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