red-tailed hawk – The Morning Porch/Patio

Sunday March 22, 2020

Dave Bonta March 22, 2020 2

The sky unscarred by a single contrail is as blue as I’ve ever seen it. A hawk spirals higher and higher, unthreading gravity’s screw.

Dave Bonta November 16, 2019

It’s warm in the sun, though the air is cold. A red-tailed hawk comes in fast and low toward the feeder, pulls up, circles, and flies off.

Dave Bonta March 24, 2019

Sun through thin clouds—dim as a lizard’s third eye. A red-tailed hawk drifts past without flapping.

Dave Bonta March 12, 2018

Cold and gloomy, but the yard seethes with birds: juncos, cardinals, wren. A hundred yards away, a hawk sits on a limb, bedeviled by crows.

Dave Bonta March 9, 2018

New snow blown about by a bitter wind. A red-tailed hawk struggles to gain altitude, mocked by a blue jay doing its best hawk scream.

Dave Bonta November 22, 2017

Low and heavy clouds. A red-tailed hawk circling over the field flaps to gain altitude, ignored by a wind-buffeted flock of crows.

Dave Bonta September 16, 2017

Sun floods the treetops. A red-tailed hawk glides in and lands with a thump. In the dark lilac, a tiny winter wren bustles about.

Dave Bonta April 21, 2017

‪A red-tailed hawk flies just inside the woods’ edge, past the birches with their catkins and the rambling old lilac just coming into bloom.‬

Dave Bonta December 6, 2016 1

A hawk glides north along the ridge, a dark eyebrow sliding over the gray sky. Behind and below my chair, something is gnawing at the house.

Dave Bonta March 31, 2016

Mild and overcast. A ladybug flies by, red elytra raised like the doors on a DeLorean. A red-tailed hawk glides low through the treetops.