What the heck?

Last night at around dusk I was letting Corky out the back patio door.  He went out and I happened to look next door and saw a big bird.  I hurried up and told my husband to come look.  By the time I turned around to look again the bird had already taken off.  He flew really fast over our garage and through the trees. 

I've never seen a bird like this.  It was not the usual variety of birds we see around here.  It was a pretty big bird.  My husband thinks it might have been a falcon or a hawk.  It all happened so fast and because it was starting to get dark I really couldn't tell the colors on the bird.

I'll have to keep my eyes open from now on before I let Corky out in case it ever comes back.

Darn, I missed it

A little while ago, I happened to look out the front. Ron was out there and there was a mamma deer and a baby deer right across the street from our house. It was a stare down between the deer and Ron. I was so excited I opened the door. Then I ran for the camera and then they were gone. I missed the picture;-( This is the second time in a couple of weeks, I've seen deer walking down our street. It's always so exciting. One time we had a deer that jumped over our fence into our yard and then jumped over our back fence. I guess I'm going to have to keep the camera out and be ready next time.