Big Birds

Going out of business sign: Pete, you're as great at coming up with the graphics as with the vids! Thanks.

Eagle pic: We have an avian foundation near our place, who nurture the big birds, so we get to see these overhead, now and then. Quite a jolt, when you look up thinking, oh, just another turkey vulture, and then its majesty hits you! Plus, sometimes it's 'way 'way up and going straight-line fast — wow! It's a thrill for both seeing the bird, and of course for what ol' Baldy has come to represent.

One step down on the thrill scale, some weeks back, I think the 'oversized hawk,' which I saw soar off a tall post was actually a golden eagle. Besides its unusually large size (for a hawk), its call was distinctive from a hawk's. Wish I'd been able to get a better look, but, magnificent anyway.

I like having the big birds around, but these are predators, so I worry about our little kitties sometimes. But then, my kitties cause me to worry about the little birds! Nature! It's too confusing! I can't take it! I'm moving back to an apartment in Chicago!

(Pardon my babbling. Anything to not think about the election....)