March 22

Today as I walked up to Rosie’s Pond, I flushed the redtail hawk. It came up off the marsh grass and flew slowly around the casket factory towards the lower part of the hill where I live. Nothing very unusual. Fast forward. Almost home, I found a decapitated robin across the street from my house. The robin was definitely the victim of some predator. That was a little weird but no connection to anything else. I downloaded my photos and found that one of the photos of the redtail showed it flying with something in its beak. Connection made. The hawk had been feeding on the robin on the grass when I disturbed it. It took off with the robin in its grip and flew towards my home and dropped it for some reason shortly after I lost sight of it. The robin feathers up close were beautiful to see. Today’s clear picture is of the muskrat pond from the back side. I took the time to find a different way to the pond so that I might approach it from a another angle when the egrets and herons return in numbers. It is quite pretty.

Ciao!

-Jorge

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