Close Please enter your Username and Password
Reset Password
If you've forgotten your password, you can enter your email address below. An email will then be sent with a link to set up a new password.
Cancel
Reset Link Sent
Password reset link sent to
Check your email and enter the confirmation code:
Don't see the email?
  • Resend Confirmation Link
  • Start Over
Close
If you have any questions, please contact Customer Service
Blogs > eyeontheskies > eyes on the skies


eyeontheskies 68M
2 posts
10/12/2016 4:33 am
migration and raptors

Peregrines are a migratory raptor. The Peregrine I encountered the other day remains a very, fresh memory. we have hawks that remain year round. yesterday brought an Osprey within sight, that bird rarely roosts for more than a second, but it was enough to see an enormous wingspan and the white and gray flashes. a Blue jay was making a riot of noise at the top of a tree. raptors are relentlessly attacked and harassed in flight, crows and jays, all ganging up to drive them away. in spring, the riot of noise usually means a rodent is attacking a nest with eggs or young birds, or a raptor is overhead or near. that Blue jay above the Osprey in the tree was on a mission, as soon as I was able to focus, poof it was gone in a beautiful flash and the jay was on its tail as soon as it lit.
my hope is this wonder of nature migrates to its winter home soon, it is a separate kind of hurt to see a falcon, master of life, no longer on its migratory path, unceremoniously flattened on a highway rotary. having been able to be up close and in awe of Osprey, Peregrine, Red tail, Red shoulder hawks, in their world, no cages, enclosures, sometimes precipitously close, all from the simple coincidence of being in the woods at the right place and time.
life, in all its forms is precious. with, it seems, so much lack of empathy, respect for life and the empty pursuit of self today. this is a window into tomorrow, a tomorrow that is, seems to be, draining, and the plug has been stolen.



×
×