chill in the air
a thousand tiny feathers
swiveling
I took this picture a while ago. Red tail hawk at the side of the road. It was forty feet ahead, perched on the split rail fence, sitting quietly. Beautiful, yet odd how it just sat there not moving, back to the road, facing the woods. As we carefully approached, bit by bit, closer and closer, the hawk still didn’t move, only its head. I took several pictures. I’d known that owls can rotate their heads to look around in different directions and thought they were the only birds to do that. Not true.
