Your Surprising, Beautiful World
We live in a beautiful world.
Beautiful if we watch it.
Breakfast was beautiful today.
Delicious breakfast, served with a beautiful view outside.
Snow crystals were beautiful, unbroken symmetry to please the eye.
There are surprises too.
We live in a natural world filled with surprises.
Surprises…if we watch for them.
While eating breakfast my eyes move to the bird feeder and nearby ash tree often.
There is always something happening.
Today there was a surprise. A 50 mile per hour bird suddenly showed up.
One moment, no hawk. The next, no birds, and a cooper’s hawk perched comfortably in the tree.
The cooper’s hawk is not only beautiful, it is surprising.
Surprisingly agile…they can chase other birds at 50 MPH…through trees and brush.
Try that with your airplane…
What to see a cooper’s hawk? Just put up a bird feeder.
Cooper’s hawks eat other birds. That’s what their habitat function is.
The cooper’s hawk makes most of North America its habitat.
Since it lives in most of North America it must be important-keeping other bird populations in balance is not only important, it’s beautiful.
Need another cooper’s surprise?
Built for cold weather, most cooper’s do not migrate.
The cooper in the photos has been at our feeder before. Starling feathers on the snow are proof.
We live in a beautiful world, filled with surprises. Some of them have feathers and fly fast.
Watch, you won’t be disappointed.
Soon it will be a habit, healthy and delightful.