Out late with friends, let me write up real quick…
The peach trees are showing the earliest signs of life.
There was a Cooper’s hawk a few days ago that I didn’t see on the fence till I was in the middle of opening the slider door. It glanced up briefly–and preened, tucking that head well into that outstretched wing. Clearly I did not bother it.
A dark shadow on the awning–and a Cooper’s hawk in the tree just past the fence. Wait–are there two? As if to answer, that shadow turned into a hawk flying to the other one. Two!
And another sighting, curving right right at the window.
Seems to me we are coming up quickly on nesting season, then. Territory has been claimed.