Thursday morning we heard a tremendous boom outside of our home on Cape Cod just after dawn. I thought the generator had blown up. Phil came running in. When we looked out on the deck, we saw this Baby Red-tailed Hawk lying on our deck… on his back with his feet straight up in the air. We knew he was still alive because we could see him breathing. He had hit our sliding glass door pretty hard.
We watched patiently as he slowly stood up after about 10 minutes. He looked around for over an hour and then flew off. Whew!
Thank goodness he was ok.
This photograph is just after he stood up. He looks a bit stunned, which I’m sure he was!
In honor of Phil’s birthday today, I thought I’d post one of his photographs. He took this one of the Seagull on the beach in front of the waves at Coast Guard Beach in Eastham on Cape Cod.
I really like to waves in the background. What do you think?
Happy Birthday, Phil! May you have a wonderful day and enjoy all of the birds here on Cape Cod!
This little red male Cardinal was searching the pine needles on the ground at Wiley Park for food. He was scurrying here and there, but stopped to have his photograph taken.
Beautiful bird, don’t you think? I just love the Cardinal. So majestic!
There were wild turkeys everywhere at the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary in Wellfleet on Cape Cod. It was fun to watch them peck away looking for food.
I thought this was the perfect Blog for Thanksgiving so… Wishing you all a very Happy Thanksgiving. May you find a few minutes to go outside and see something special in nature.
We were taking a short hike at Fort Hill on the National Seashore the other day when I saw a lot of commotion out at Nauset Break. I didn’t have my binoculars with me so I zoomed in with my camera and took a few photographs.
When I got home I could see that there were hundreds of birds flying about out there as well as resting on the beaches. I wonder if there was an abundance of fish out there that they were feeding on or why they were there?
Any ideas?
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