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I watched this beautiful red-shoulder hawk do this 3 times before flying away. It would sit about 4 meters off the ground in a pine tree, dive down into the grass, and start plowing through the soil with its talons, unearthing mole crickets and then swallowing them whole. The...

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Angie Cordeiro57vor 1 Jahr

Thanks for this @marktakesphoto! Glad I’m not a cricket 🦗

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I was at Conowingo watching the eagles when this white-breasted nuthatch came flying to the sycamore tree bedside us. The bird seemed certain of its goal. The little one dug a little into the loose bark and found what it was looking for. How did the bird know?

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A brilliant set of sensors.

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When I look at the natural world, I sometimes feel like something called quantum mechanics and parallel worlds seem closer to me.

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Maybe by jumping up and down on the earth, the crickets get alarmed and make noise. He can hear them and find them easily.

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Amazing, and fantastic photography! 👏You could be right about the UV theory

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5. Are hawks attracted to the sounds of insects? Yes, certain hawks are attracted to the sounds of large insects, such as grasshoppers or dragonflies, that could be a prey source. This is especially true for hawks that live in environments where those insects are abundant.

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What an incredible sight!

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Amazing and beautiful birds!

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Great video Mark. Fascinating to see.

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🚨🛸💥🔥 Have We Cracked Gravity? 🔥💥🛸🚨 Thoughts? "I can see that it's a perfect triangle, and it's gigantic, and it has a white light at each apex of the triangle and a large, white light in the center. And it takes off, and it zips out of sight." 2006, Eglin AFB... (This sounds similar to what Dylan Borland says he saw at Langley AFB. If this stuff is so secret, why do they seem so lax in allowing others, who are not cleared, to see it? If this craft exists... Is it ours, that we developed own our own? Is it craft that we constructed and reverse engineered, based, in part, on technology of unknown origin that we have acquired? Is it a craft of unknown origin that we acquired and learned how to fly? Are "they" working with us and showing us how to fly "their" craft? Was Will Miller right? And if you don't know who Will Miller is, do some searching. I'll pull up some of my older quotes later.) ~~~ Daniel Gockerell: "I step outside, and I look to my left, and about, I would say, three, four hundred yards, there was a clearing. And surrounding this clearing is these high-mass portable generator lights like they use on construction for...in roadways that you see and stuff, and highways and stuff like that. And I saw Humvees, military personnel out there, it looked like, and some black SUVs. "And I see hovering, about 15 to 20 feet off the ground, this giant, maybe 300 or so feet in length (size of a football field. ~Joe), aircraft. There was no visible cockpit, you know, no visible like, traditional fuselage or engine. Like, I couldn't see...it just, it was different to me. "So, right about the time I get out and I notice this, it hovers, it goes straight up. And when I say hover, I don't mean in a traditional sense. So when you think about, uh, you know, any fixed-wing aircraft, any bird that we have, known to man right now, even a rotary bird, it oscillates when it hovers. This just goes straight up and it's dead quiet, nothing, not a sound. I could hear the buzzing from the generator lights, right? "So, this gets about to the canopy, like, height, a little over the canopy, and does a slight bank, and takes off. And it rips right over the canopy like, looks like it was heading northeast, which I'm guessing. I honestly couldn't remember, just, I don't know, sometimes you know, you feel like you know your cardinal directions, like, which way is home. "Anyway, this aircraft, when it banks, I can see that it's a perfect triangle, and it's gigantic, and it has a white light at each apex of the triangle and a large, white light in the center. And it takes off, and it zips out of sight. I mean, Mach something we don't know. And, I mean, it takes off. And the biggest shock to me at that point was there was no audible report. There was nothing...like something going that fast, it's gonna bust the sound barrier, you're gonna hear it. And I didn't. I heard nothing. And, at that point, again, it was just the buzzing of the generator lights out there. "I watched this as I'm smoking my cigarette, seemingly do several touch and goes, but it doesn't go down at that little drop zone that it took off. It just comes back, stays there for a second, couple seconds, and then takes off again. Comes back, stays there for a couple seconds, takes off again. And at that point I grew bored of it. And I was impressed, obviously, but I'm like, okay, this is our military testing some awesome technology and... "You know, again, this isn't my wheelhouse, so I'm not, you know, this is...I'm not really realizing that this is some sort of zero-point energy or something that we, you know, we've never seen before. So, it's nothing like I've ever seen before. I've never seen any military or civilian bird have the capabilities that something like this has. Again, there's no signage, there's no visible cockpit fuselage, you know, there's nothing that I can see that, you know, would make me think it's any kind of traditional bird that we've seen, or I've heard about. It takes off and I go back inside, and that's it. "So, the biggest thing to me, and when we were discussing it, is the notable observations, and that there's zero oscillation, right? The propulsion and noise...there was no audible report, no hum, nothing. What was it? It lacked, uh, like, an obviously visible cabin, uh, any signage, engine housing, exhaust systems. And it's the sheer speed that it that, you know, that was, you know, one of the most notable things."
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🚨🛸💥🔥 Have We Cracked Gravity? 🔥💥🛸🚨 Thoughts? "I can see that it's a perfect triangle, and it's gigantic, and it has a white light at each apex of the triangle and a large, white light in the center. And it takes off, and it zips out of sight." 2006, Eglin AFB... (This sounds similar to what Dylan Borland says he saw at Langley AFB. If this stuff is so secret, why do they seem so lax in allowing others, who are not cleared, to see it? If this craft exists... Is it ours, that we developed own our own? Is it craft that we constructed and reverse engineered, based, in part, on technology of unknown origin that we have acquired? Is it a craft of unknown origin that we acquired and learned how to fly? Are "they" working with us and showing us how to fly "their" craft? Was Will Miller right? And if you don't know who Will Miller is, do some searching. I'll pull up some of my older quotes later.) ~~~ Daniel Gockerell: "I step outside, and I look to my left, and about, I would say, three, four hundred yards, there was a clearing. And surrounding this clearing is these high-mass portable generator lights like they use on construction for...in roadways that you see and stuff, and highways and stuff like that. And I saw Humvees, military personnel out there, it looked like, and some black SUVs. "And I see hovering, about 15 to 20 feet off the ground, this giant, maybe 300 or so feet in length (size of a football field. ~Joe), aircraft. There was no visible cockpit, you know, no visible like, traditional fuselage or engine. Like, I couldn't see...it just, it was different to me. "So, right about the time I get out and I notice this, it hovers, it goes straight up. And when I say hover, I don't mean in a traditional sense. So when you think about, uh, you know, any fixed-wing aircraft, any bird that we have, known to man right now, even a rotary bird, it oscillates when it hovers. This just goes straight up and it's dead quiet, nothing, not a sound. I could hear the buzzing from the generator lights, right? "So, this gets about to the canopy, like, height, a little over the canopy, and does a slight bank, and takes off. And it rips right over the canopy like, looks like it was heading northeast, which I'm guessing. I honestly couldn't remember, just, I don't know, sometimes you know, you feel like you know your cardinal directions, like, which way is home. "Anyway, this aircraft, when it banks, I can see that it's a perfect triangle, and it's gigantic, and it has a white light at each apex of the triangle and a large, white light in the center. And it takes off, and it zips out of sight. I mean, Mach something we don't know. And, I mean, it takes off. And the biggest shock to me at that point was there was no audible report. There was nothing...like something going that fast, it's gonna bust the sound barrier, you're gonna hear it. And I didn't. I heard nothing. And, at that point, again, it was just the buzzing of the generator lights out there. "I watched this as I'm smoking my cigarette, seemingly do several touch and goes, but it doesn't go down at that little drop zone that it took off. It just comes back, stays there for a second, couple seconds, and then takes off again. Comes back, stays there for a couple seconds, takes off again. And at that point I grew bored of it. And I was impressed, obviously, but I'm like, okay, this is our military testing some awesome technology and... "You know, again, this isn't my wheelhouse, so I'm not, you know, this is...I'm not really realizing that this is some sort of zero-point energy or something that we, you know, we've never seen before. So, it's nothing like I've ever seen before. I've never seen any military or civilian bird have the capabilities that something like this has. Again, there's no signage, there's no visible cockpit fuselage, you know, there's nothing that I can see that, you know, would make me think it's any kind of traditional bird that we've seen, or I've heard about. It takes off and I go back inside, and that's it. "So, the biggest thing to me, and when we were discussing it, is the notable observations, and that there's zero oscillation, right? The propulsion and noise...there was no audible report, no hum, nothing. What was it? It lacked, uh, like, an obviously visible cabin, uh, any signage, engine housing, exhaust systems. And it's the sheer speed that it that, you know, that was, you know, one of the most notable things."

Joe Murgia

77,769 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten

MORE OF THIS, PLEASE: Important comments from CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss to colleague Vladimir Duthiers about having conversations with those we disagree with, even if you may think someone is controversial and wrong... CBS’s Vladimir Duthiers: “So, Bari, when I introduced you to the audience, you said something incredibly powerful. We have to get to a place in this country where we can have discussions with people we vehemently disagree with. Charlie Kirk was controversial in his life. Some of his critics called his organization racist, xenophobic, sexist, homophobic. Which you asked Erika about and I want to play a little bit of that for our viewers.” [Town Hall clip] Duthiers: “So, Bari, what do you say to those who argue it’s harmful to platform a guy like Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA and even his widow, even though she’s grieving some critics have addressed that with you?” Bari Weiss: “Yeah, I mean I just fundamentally disagree with the idea that we shouldn’t be able to speak across divides. That doesn’t mean that there are not lines. The question, of course, is whether or not Charlie Kirk crossed those lines and in my view, you hear me quote many of the controversial things he said — needless to say, there are many things Charlie Kirk said in his life that I vehemently disagree with, but, to me, that’s not the point. The point is that we are walking into an abyss as a country if we accept the idea that words are violence, but violence, if directed at the right targets, is acceptable. I fundamentally reject that world view. The entire point of our democracy, the whole premise of it as we’re entering our 250th year is that we solve our problems by persuasion. We solve our problems by talking to one another. We don’t solve our problems by shooting one another in the neck as happened that day at that Utah college and so, to me ,especially as we’re living in a world where you can live next door to someone and if you have different things on your social media feed, you can live in a different reality, and so, the point of this conversation, even if it makes some people uncomfortable, even if they disagree with something they heard on stage, I disagreed with some I heard on stage. The point, that’s the whole nature of the democratic process and this conversation and this whole series that we’re going to be announcing in the coming days, the point is to revive that in a moment this country needs it. More thank ever.”
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MORE OF THIS, PLEASE: Important comments from CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss to colleague Vladimir Duthiers about having conversations with those we disagree with, even if you may think someone is controversial and wrong... CBS’s Vladimir Duthiers: “So, Bari, when I introduced you to the audience, you said something incredibly powerful. We have to get to a place in this country where we can have discussions with people we vehemently disagree with. Charlie Kirk was controversial in his life. Some of his critics called his organization racist, xenophobic, sexist, homophobic. Which you asked Erika about and I want to play a little bit of that for our viewers.” [Town Hall clip] Duthiers: “So, Bari, what do you say to those who argue it’s harmful to platform a guy like Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA and even his widow, even though she’s grieving some critics have addressed that with you?” Bari Weiss: “Yeah, I mean I just fundamentally disagree with the idea that we shouldn’t be able to speak across divides. That doesn’t mean that there are not lines. The question, of course, is whether or not Charlie Kirk crossed those lines and in my view, you hear me quote many of the controversial things he said — needless to say, there are many things Charlie Kirk said in his life that I vehemently disagree with, but, to me, that’s not the point. The point is that we are walking into an abyss as a country if we accept the idea that words are violence, but violence, if directed at the right targets, is acceptable. I fundamentally reject that world view. The entire point of our democracy, the whole premise of it as we’re entering our 250th year is that we solve our problems by persuasion. We solve our problems by talking to one another. We don’t solve our problems by shooting one another in the neck as happened that day at that Utah college and so, to me ,especially as we’re living in a world where you can live next door to someone and if you have different things on your social media feed, you can live in a different reality, and so, the point of this conversation, even if it makes some people uncomfortable, even if they disagree with something they heard on stage, I disagreed with some I heard on stage. The point, that’s the whole nature of the democratic process and this conversation and this whole series that we’re going to be announcing in the coming days, the point is to revive that in a moment this country needs it. More thank ever.”

Curtis Houck

257,495 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

Jim Jarmusch on how he got the idea to make "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" (1999): "It really came about from wanting to work with Forest Whitaker, who I met when I was going to the Super-8 lab when I was working on 'Year of the Horse' (1997), or maybe on the video. I ran into him a couple of times and we would just start talking and he said to me the first time, "Hey, if you ever think of anything for me, let me know, I'd love to work with you." I couldn't get him out of my head, certain qualities that he has and it was more from talking to him as a person than his work. I was very, very moved by his portrayal of Charlie Parker in 'Bird' (1988). I thought it was a beautiful performance, although I'm a big be-bop fan and I did not like the movie in terms of its slant on depicting the life of Bird - how can you make a film about Bird in which Miles Davis is never even mentioned? There were a lot of things really odd to me about it. Miles' estate probably refused to let him use his name. With good reason. They usually use this very soft, gentle, poignant side of Forest and he gets cast as the loveable soft guy. And I'm really attracted to that quality, but there is a whole other side to him, just physically, his presence, there's more there than that and I wanted to get both of those things in a character. So I started thinking how can I do that? He should be a warrior and I thought he should be a hitman, that sort of cliché and then the samurai thing came to me because in eastern-culture warriors, there is a whole spiritual side to their training. If you look at the Shaolin monks in China, they're martial arts experts, but they are priests; they are enlightened religious teachers, but the physical side is also completely intertwined. So that gave me the idea to give him some depth. Then the book 'Hugga Kurai', because it's a text from the 1750s written by an old samurai as a guide to samurai life and philosophy. It contains so many things, minor, mundane details about the food you eat, or how your house is built, how often you clean your armour, to incredibly deep Zen philosophy, and it's all in this book and it jumps from one to the next. Then I just started collecting disparate ideas; I was interested in the decline of organised crime families in New York because I used to live right across from the Gambino family social club in Little Italy, and in the late 70s and early 80s when they were unravelling, and I would always see them on the street - John Gotti and Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano and Neil Belacroche and all those wise guys. So I collected some ideas about them, and the idea of pigeons came from the fact that on the roof behind me, there was an old Italian guy who had a pigeon coop for years. He died just before we started filming actually, and his birds were moved away, but I used to watch him fly his birds a lot and there was something very beautiful in that movement. Sometimes I'd just look out the window on a Saturday morning and see them moving, and the light would shift and they would go from black to white to black to white to black to white, and that was a detail. I would just collect and collect, and then I sat down and tried to weave all these disparate things into something." ("Jim Jarmusch - part three", The Guardian, 2000) P.S: On this day, 27 years ago, "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" (1999) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, France.
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Jim Jarmusch on how he got the idea to make "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" (1999): "It really came about from wanting to work with Forest Whitaker, who I met when I was going to the Super-8 lab when I was working on 'Year of the Horse' (1997), or maybe on the video. I ran into him a couple of times and we would just start talking and he said to me the first time, "Hey, if you ever think of anything for me, let me know, I'd love to work with you." I couldn't get him out of my head, certain qualities that he has and it was more from talking to him as a person than his work. I was very, very moved by his portrayal of Charlie Parker in 'Bird' (1988). I thought it was a beautiful performance, although I'm a big be-bop fan and I did not like the movie in terms of its slant on depicting the life of Bird - how can you make a film about Bird in which Miles Davis is never even mentioned? There were a lot of things really odd to me about it. Miles' estate probably refused to let him use his name. With good reason. They usually use this very soft, gentle, poignant side of Forest and he gets cast as the loveable soft guy. And I'm really attracted to that quality, but there is a whole other side to him, just physically, his presence, there's more there than that and I wanted to get both of those things in a character. So I started thinking how can I do that? He should be a warrior and I thought he should be a hitman, that sort of cliché and then the samurai thing came to me because in eastern-culture warriors, there is a whole spiritual side to their training. If you look at the Shaolin monks in China, they're martial arts experts, but they are priests; they are enlightened religious teachers, but the physical side is also completely intertwined. So that gave me the idea to give him some depth. Then the book 'Hugga Kurai', because it's a text from the 1750s written by an old samurai as a guide to samurai life and philosophy. It contains so many things, minor, mundane details about the food you eat, or how your house is built, how often you clean your armour, to incredibly deep Zen philosophy, and it's all in this book and it jumps from one to the next. Then I just started collecting disparate ideas; I was interested in the decline of organised crime families in New York because I used to live right across from the Gambino family social club in Little Italy, and in the late 70s and early 80s when they were unravelling, and I would always see them on the street - John Gotti and Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano and Neil Belacroche and all those wise guys. So I collected some ideas about them, and the idea of pigeons came from the fact that on the roof behind me, there was an old Italian guy who had a pigeon coop for years. He died just before we started filming actually, and his birds were moved away, but I used to watch him fly his birds a lot and there was something very beautiful in that movement. Sometimes I'd just look out the window on a Saturday morning and see them moving, and the light would shift and they would go from black to white to black to white to black to white, and that was a detail. I would just collect and collect, and then I sat down and tried to weave all these disparate things into something." ("Jim Jarmusch - part three", The Guardian, 2000) P.S: On this day, 27 years ago, "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" (1999) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, France.

DepressedBergman

19,466 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

MY CONSERVATIVE MANIFESTO My book Liberty and Tyranny is the number one selling conservative book of its generation. No brag, just truth. I wrote it in 2008 and it went on to sell over 1.5 million copies. But the real question is: do the principles in that book still matter today? In this clip, I share a personal story about my father reading the manuscript before publication—and how he immediately recognized its potential. He told me it would resonate because it laid out complex ideas in plain English. And he was right. But a lot has changed since then. The world is different. The conversation is different. And I ask whether we’re still focused on the core principles that defined that moment—or if we’ve drifted away from them. This isn’t just about a book—it’s about ideas, clarity, and whether we’re still willing to engage with the fundamentals that shape our thinking. To watch the entire episode: YouTube: Rumble:
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MY CONSERVATIVE MANIFESTO My book Liberty and Tyranny is the number one selling conservative book of its generation. No brag, just truth. I wrote it in 2008 and it went on to sell over 1.5 million copies. But the real question is: do the principles in that book still matter today? In this clip, I share a personal story about my father reading the manuscript before publication—and how he immediately recognized its potential. He told me it would resonate because it laid out complex ideas in plain English. And he was right. But a lot has changed since then. The world is different. The conversation is different. And I ask whether we’re still focused on the core principles that defined that moment—or if we’ve drifted away from them. This isn’t just about a book—it’s about ideas, clarity, and whether we’re still willing to engage with the fundamentals that shape our thinking. To watch the entire episode: YouTube: Rumble:

Mark R. Levin

37,451 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

‘I wrote it in the morning on the piano, like I said many times, and I went to the office and I sang it. I thought, “Hell, let’s do it”, and we booked the studio. And Phil came in, he said, “How do you want it?” I said, “You know, 1950 but now.” And he said “Right,” and boom, I did it in just about three goes. He played it back, and there it was. I said, “A bit more bass, that’s all.” And off we went. See, Phil doesn’t fuss about with fuckin’ stereo or all the bullshit. Just “Did it sound alright? Let’s have it.” It doesn’t matter whether something’s prominent or not prominent. If it sounds good to you as a layman or as a human, take it. Don’t bother whether this is like that or the quality of this. That suits me fine.’ John Lennon, 1970
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‘I wrote it in the morning on the piano, like I said many times, and I went to the office and I sang it. I thought, “Hell, let’s do it”, and we booked the studio. And Phil came in, he said, “How do you want it?” I said, “You know, 1950 but now.” And he said “Right,” and boom, I did it in just about three goes. He played it back, and there it was. I said, “A bit more bass, that’s all.” And off we went. See, Phil doesn’t fuss about with fuckin’ stereo or all the bullshit. Just “Did it sound alright? Let’s have it.” It doesn’t matter whether something’s prominent or not prominent. If it sounds good to you as a layman or as a human, take it. Don’t bother whether this is like that or the quality of this. That suits me fine.’ John Lennon, 1970

Florrie Mens Well Being Walk

94,110 Aufrufe • vor 18 Tagen

Richard Madeley, "This execution, which is what it was effectively. This execution of seven aid workers" "Feels like some sort of watershed this morning, doesn't it? Because this time yesterday, as the news was breaking, the general assumption was before the details came through, that it was probably some sort of awful collateral damage, that these workers had been killed, incidentally, in some other kind of conflict" "But now we know that it was extremely targeted" "The first vehicle was hit in a small convoy. Some of the workers survived and managed to get out and get into another vehicle that moved off that was hit. Then there was one third vehicle that was still proceeding, and about a kilometre later that was hit. So they were hit three separate times" "And just look at this. I mean, this is bullseye aiming. Absolutely no accidental collateral damage here at all. This is an execution"
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Richard Madeley, "This execution, which is what it was effectively. This execution of seven aid workers" "Feels like some sort of watershed this morning, doesn't it? Because this time yesterday, as the news was breaking, the general assumption was before the details came through, that it was probably some sort of awful collateral damage, that these workers had been killed, incidentally, in some other kind of conflict" "But now we know that it was extremely targeted" "The first vehicle was hit in a small convoy. Some of the workers survived and managed to get out and get into another vehicle that moved off that was hit. Then there was one third vehicle that was still proceeding, and about a kilometre later that was hit. So they were hit three separate times" "And just look at this. I mean, this is bullseye aiming. Absolutely no accidental collateral damage here at all. This is an execution"

Farrukh

943,478 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

🪶OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS JUST HAPPENED! 🪶 So I am in my house and hear this huge bang! At first I think that the wind has slammed one of my doors shut, then I realize my doors were not actually open. I mean honestly it sounded like a large rock fell on my roof. So I go outside to look around and as soon as I open my backdoor, I see three crows fly off my roof. I'm looking up at the roof to see if I can see any damage (like, was this a chunk of meteor or what?!?), then I look down and see this gorgeous Hawk sprawled out on my patio couch (excuse the state of the cover - my dogs are up and down on it constantly - I need to pressure wash it). I realize that the crows must have been chasing him and the Hawk has flown into my back window there, full tilt. He allows me to gently love on him for almost 10 minutes - he must have been stunned. Eventually I try to pic him up and he flies over to my chair by my fire pit and just sits there (pics below) and lets me pet him some more. At this point I have something in the oven beeping that I need to take out, and as soon as I open my back door, Kali (my Chocolate Lab) comes charging out towards the Hawk and the Hawk takes off and flies away, seemingly no worse for wear. For those of you who have followed me for a while, you will know Hawk is my Totem ( I have a Red-Tailed Hawk Feather tattooed on my arm and I have had numerous awesome and amazing Hawk encounters - gifts of Hawk Medicine that I have documented on here), but this was the most beautiful, profound one yet. What an absolute blessing this encounter was for me (not so great for him/her), but I'd like to think that I nursed this Hawk gently through the worst of it. Best of all I got to share this moment with someone really important to me. Wow. I'm still stunned myself. Thank you Hawk for coming to see me and for your Divine Medicine - I hope you received mine. 💜
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🪶OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS JUST HAPPENED! 🪶 So I am in my house and hear this huge bang! At first I think that the wind has slammed one of my doors shut, then I realize my doors were not actually open. I mean honestly it sounded like a large rock fell on my roof. So I go outside to look around and as soon as I open my backdoor, I see three crows fly off my roof. I'm looking up at the roof to see if I can see any damage (like, was this a chunk of meteor or what?!?), then I look down and see this gorgeous Hawk sprawled out on my patio couch (excuse the state of the cover - my dogs are up and down on it constantly - I need to pressure wash it). I realize that the crows must have been chasing him and the Hawk has flown into my back window there, full tilt. He allows me to gently love on him for almost 10 minutes - he must have been stunned. Eventually I try to pic him up and he flies over to my chair by my fire pit and just sits there (pics below) and lets me pet him some more. At this point I have something in the oven beeping that I need to take out, and as soon as I open my back door, Kali (my Chocolate Lab) comes charging out towards the Hawk and the Hawk takes off and flies away, seemingly no worse for wear. For those of you who have followed me for a while, you will know Hawk is my Totem ( I have a Red-Tailed Hawk Feather tattooed on my arm and I have had numerous awesome and amazing Hawk encounters - gifts of Hawk Medicine that I have documented on here), but this was the most beautiful, profound one yet. What an absolute blessing this encounter was for me (not so great for him/her), but I'd like to think that I nursed this Hawk gently through the worst of it. Best of all I got to share this moment with someone really important to me. Wow. I'm still stunned myself. Thank you Hawk for coming to see me and for your Divine Medicine - I hope you received mine. 💜

🌏 𝑺𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 💎

32,720 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten