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I’m here today!!!!
This is the last week that the raptors will scream. The feeding frenzy will fade as the chicks are taught to hunt. Then the fledglings will take off for greener past…uh…bluer skies. But until then I love the sound they make, the screaming demands. Hmmm. Is that the terrible two’s of the raptor world?
A few years back, I watched for several weeks as a mated pair of hawks nested and hunted. Then one morning I saw the male hawk, dead in the road, killed by by a passing vehicle. The next day I watched in amazement as the mama hawk tried to teach her three young how to hunt, all alone.
It was in a huge field, and I could see everything, so I pulled over and just stared. She would rise into the air and search for something, then dive and grab. Her three babies stood on the ground and watched. Then, one took off, emulating mama. It was wonderful.
Today is pretty great too.
Hungs,
Faith
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A native of Louisiana, Faith spent her early years on the bayou and rivers, learning survival skills and the womanly arts. She liked horses, dogs, fishing and crabbing much better than girly skills. Still does. A love of history and ancient writings excite her even more, perhaps because she can trace her own family tree back to William the Conqueror's invasion of England in 1066, later to Sehoy III, an American Indian princess, and to the gens de couleur libre, the free men of color in New Orleans at the time of the War Between the States.
As a girl, she fell in love with fantasy and sifi, reading five books a week, and wishing she, "could write that great stuff." Teachers in high school convinced her she could, and she's been writing ever since, with a desire to see ultimate good fight and defeat ultimate evil, and humans as part of the battle.
Faith now shares her life with her Renaissance Man (Ren) and their dogs.
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