I was taking a walk, camera in hand, looking for a good photo op near the Salt Marsh at Boat Meadow. When, all of a sudden, a Great Blue Heron flew in right by the side of the river. I’ve seen him there a couple of times in the past few days. I wonder if this is where he’ll spend his winter.
What a treat that would be!
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!
