Stretch

Happy Father's Day!

Hope all the fathers out there have a wonderful Father's Day!



These are just some more birds I found while poking around in Louisiana, lol.



Most of these I don't find up in Wisconsin.

rough legged hawk soaring

Watching him soaring above simply took my breath away.  We need more take-your-breath moments in our lives!

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There are several rough legged hawks hanging around nearby. We've been seeing the lighter ones, like this guy, and some of the darker versions. The darker ones look a lot like a crow while sitting in the top of a tree, then they spread their wings and you see the white underside the wings.



I cropped this one a bit so you could maybe see better how beautiful he is. I watched him for the longest time!

Louisiana birds

There were two of these on the side of the road, one flew off but I managed to catch one of them.



We enjoyed City Park in New Orleans and the birds did too.

Rough-legged Hawk

We see hawks quite often, but this time we were able to pause and I could snap a few shots. Dennis drove slowly by him as I shot out the window just praying for something to come out.

He kept his eyes on me but I was sad the branches were in the way.

However, we have learned, do not stop. If you stop the car to shoot the shots. . .

. . .this is what happens. :(

taking flight

Be like the bird, flying on wings of faith!

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Birds of Prey eating

Hosted by Cecily and MamaGeek

The last time we were at the Manitowoc zoo we were lucky enough to be there at feeding time for the birds of prey. You might be grossed out by these so don't say you weren't warned. While I was a little grossed out, I also found it very interesting.

The Bald Eagle gobbled all his mice up very quickly!  See, one in each claw and two in the throat.

See he has another in his mouth even though you can still see the tail of the previous one.

Almost done.

And with a full tummy he is done with us.

Go away I say! I thought owls were the only ones able to turn their heads all the way around.

The zoo keeper laid the mice on this log for the hawk.

He was a little more hesitant to eat.

So while we waited for him to decide to eat we walked around and saw the owl (those pictures will be up tomorrow).

When we came back around he had a mouse in his talons.

Bye bye mousey.

I guess he decided to ignore us and have his dinner. Glad I'm not a mouse!

Boys and Bows

You may remember seeing this cake (DQ of course) a few days ago. We had thought we would take Haden camping for his birthday but with the weather we keep having we wussed out. We did however take him to the Archery Range to sight his new bow.

Dennis needed to sight his too. I guess this is when they adjust the little dealybobber to where they can hit the bull’s-eye.

Looks like they need a little more adjusting.

I quickly got bored and went in search of critters.

I found a singing sparrow.

Boring.

But then a tiny frog came hopping by. He stopped long enough to say hello!

And as Haden was doing this, I looked up and. . .

. . . a hawk soared above.

I’m not so sure Haden noticed.

While the ants busily built their home,

Haden practiced on. In fact we left him there, maybe we’ll pick him up next year.