The Christmas hawk.

I had just made the cranberry sauce when I set it on the table to cool and I looked up.  This gorgeous

guest to the garden was sitting preening while the other birds were wary.  Simply beautiful.  Click here for a short video of two hawks visiting last week. 

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. Ernest Hemingway
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Right before Christmas dinner, an observant guest looked out the window and noticed that our visitor was back.  Or perhaps we are the visitors as the hawk was here first!