Hawk's Winter Watch ...

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

                ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

                      ~ 1803-1882 
Regal Red-Tailed Hawk peers from a high perch, gazing over the winter landscape in search of prey as sunset beckons on a February evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

This bird of prey is the most common hawk in North America.

Background texture by Jai Johnson added for artistic effect.

Winter Red ...

“I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”

                         ~ e e cummings

                             ~ 1894-1962

Beautiful North American Male Cardinal brings a pop of red to a gray January evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.