Good morning. ☕☕☕

I'm up early this morning. I sustained some fire ant bites on my arms while working in the yard. It itches ... very annoying. I've heard that you're not supposed to scratch the itch because it only makes it worse. What did I do? You guessed it, I scratched the itch. It does provide some very temporary relief. Anyhow, I put some bug bite gunk on it and here I am.

Does it pay to be annoying? Well, it didn't work out for the fire ants. Which makes me wonder about self-important people that you occasionally see at a store with an over inflated sense of entitlement. What is to gain by meanness?

“I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes, I will rise and be annoying?” - Vera Nazarian

“Be kind to people even when they treat you badly. You will be the one who will win in the end.” - Alex Elle

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Danger Will Robinson!

My wife and I were working in the back yard this afternoon. My wife pruned the bottom of the oak tree. I have a chipper, so we ran the branches she cut off through the chipper. We also put a couple rose bushes in the ground and did some other stuff.

We took brakes at the outdoor table under the umbrella. While sitting there, two woodpeckers, one downy and one red bellied, landed in the crepe myrtles by the fence. I've been wanting a close up of a downy woodpecker, but my camera was in the house. I went and got my camera, but of course they were gone when I returned. But a little while later, the broad winged hawk, that's been around lately, showed up high in the sky.

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Uhh ohhh. ...

Yesterday, while out with the dogs, I saw this broad-winged hawk, but I didn't have my camera. I'm not absolutely sure it's the same hawk but pretty sure. When I saw it yesterday, it wasn't having a good time. There were two crows harassing the hawk, trying to run it out of town. The crows were about the same size as the hawk, maybe even a bit larger.

"Crows often attach hawks because they see them as a threat. To defend themselves from a natural predator, crows often go on the offensive and pester the predatory bird. This behavior usually drives the other bird away and keeps the crows safe." - birdwatchingpro.com

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I like to sit in by backyard with my camera and watch the birds in the yard and the sky. It's not rare that I'll see something interesting. This broad-winged hawk was in the sky yesterday afternoon. I noticed after all the birds in the yard (and there were a lot) suddenly took off, leaving the backyard quiet.

"One of the greatest spectacles of migration is a swirling flock of Broad-winged Hawks on their way to South America. Also known as “kettles,” flocks can contain thousands of circling birds that evoke a vast cauldron being stirred with an invisible spoon. A small, stocky raptor with black-and-white bands on the tail, the Broad-winged Hawk is a bird of the forest interior and can be hard to see during the nesting season. Its call is a piercing, two-parted whistle." - allaboutbirds.org

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Broad-Winged Hawk - #CostaRica

This stunningly beautiful, solitary hunter, is peculiar in its behaviour of migrating in massive flocks (Kettles).

They survive on almost no water getting what they need from their food!!!

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