OMG!  I was walking in the park yesterday and brought some peanuts and black oil sunflower seeds to feed the squirrels and birds.  However, I didn’t see any of them.  Not one.  It was very unusual.  As I walked, looking around for the birds and squirrels, a woman in front of me suddenly stopped walking.  She looked up into the tree, took a few steps forward and then returned to look up the same spot.   Well, being the nosy New Yorker that I am, I looked up in the direction I saw her gazing.  My head did a double turn when I saw this hawk sitting majestically in the tree.  I looked across at a few other trees and saw three other squirrels on different trees frozen in a pose.  It was as if they didn’t want to move for fear of attracting the hawk’s attention.  

I got all excited and aimed my camera at the hawk.   These were one of the times when I wished I had a nice lens to go with my camera or perhaps an even better camera (no offense, my dear camera, but there’s only so much you can do).  I took a few shots of the front of the hawk, then walked behind it and took some more shots.   Then I returned to watch it from the front. 

The hawk ignored me at first but when I didn’t walk away, he seemed to bristle and shot me a look as if to say, "Scram, lady, you’re cramping my style.   Nothing to see here.  Keep moving."   So, after a while I did.   I walked a bit further but decided to turn around and go back to watch the hawk some more.   When I returned to the spot I saw the hawk, he was gone.   Squirrels were running around (so I fed them) and two flocks of sparrows were flying around (I fed them, too).

See ya later, Hawk.  Too bad black oil sunflower seeds don’t do it for you.   I would have liked to feed you, too.

Paz