Wild Creatures

Dwight took two great pictures this week. Both were in our back yard. One was a Red Shouldered Hawk and the other a Roadrunner.
The hawk first appeared on the other side of the house, across the street, atop a tall power pole. We heard him calling early one morning last week. It sounded to me like the call of a Cardinal (“cheer, cheer”), only deep throated and screechy. It made four utterances at each call. He called and called. Finally Dwight answered him with the same call, and away he flew. Here’s his picture in our backyard this week:

Photograph of Red Shouldered Hawk

The roadrunner was first seen by us because Dwight’s cat, Pepper, had him treed. After a few days, he appeared again and Dwight took his picture in our back yard. Here he is:

Photograph of Roadrunner

The closeup pictures show that roadrunners have eyelashes. Something we didn’t know about them.
I know you can find many pictures like these on the internet, but these pictures were made by Dwight Fake in the backyard of our Rockport home. That makes them more exciting–at least to us. I think he did an excellent job of photographing these wild birds.