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Guess Who Came to Dinner?
Sena noticed a Red-tailed hawk feasting on something this morning. It’s pretty different from yesterday, I can tell you. At first, I thought it was a squirrel. Sena made a better identification. See if you can guess. This hawk knew what it was doing and it looked hungry. It also peered all around and up,…
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Red-tailed Hawk Pecking at Breakfast
We got a video of a Red-tail Hawk eating a mouse—or maybe it’s better to say it looked like it was trying to eat it. The last time we saw the hawks in the nest we saw only one chick in the nest. That was a little over a month ago. I just read that…
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Jazzy Indigo Bunting in the Garden
We’ve gotten a visitor to Sena’s garden. It’s a brilliant male Indigo Bunting. While it looks like it’s a brilliant blue color, it’s really a gray bird. Like the Blue Jay, its feathers don’t have blue pigment, but they refract sunlight. This makes them look blue. There are actually two distinct species of bunting. The…
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Juggle Double Take!
I just noticed something this morning about my Fitness Test exercise video I made yesterday. In the juggle warm-up segment, if you just play it at normal speed it looks like one of the balls smacks my face. It’s when I do the second behind the back throw trick around 34 seconds in. I ran…
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Dr. Jim Fitness Test
I thought I would share my personal fitness test. I’m pretty regular, especially in the last couple of months since I found out I gained 20 pounds after I retired from my job as consulting psychiatrist to University of Iowa Health Care. Sena and I both exercise and we’re being careful about our diet (kale…
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Get Up & Move!
On the calendar for Mental Health Month today is “Movement matters” so it’s all about getting off your duff and doing something physically active. It doesn’t have to be that strenuous and you can make it fun. For example, around 3 years or so ago, I picked up a set of juggling balls and taught…
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Red-Tailed Hawk Chick in the Nest!
Today, Sena raced in from the garden in the back yard and alerted me that she could see something in the Red-tailed Hawk nest, maybe a chick! We haven’t been able to see much for days now. It was spitting rain and windy so the video is pretty shaky. But the adult hawk is standing…
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Red-tailed Hawk in the Rain!
Well, Sena came running in the garage from the back yard covered with dirt! She excitedly told me she found a spot out in the garden to get a good picture of the Red-tail hawk sitting on the nest. It started raining while we were out there, but you can still see the hawk settling…
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What’s Happening with the Hawks?
This morning I got a couple of videos of one of the hawks perched on the side of the nest fiddling with something in it. We can’t tell what’s happening with it, but I don’t think anything has hatched, if any eggs are in there. We’re hoping the chicks hatch so we can see them…
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Red tailed Hawk Pair Trade Places on the Nest
Early this morning, we saw the Red-tailed hawks trade places in the nest. This gives the mate a chance to grab a bite to eat while the other incubates the eggs we hope are in there. Little birds tend to chase the hawks away from their territories. Even though the hawks are 3 times bigger…
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