This is a slightly blurry pictures of a bird I found hanging outside in our backyard this morning. I posted these on Facebook asking what kind of bird this guy was, and bam!, one of my FB friends was right on target with Kestral. I found some images on Flickr that match him perfectly.

Here are a few better pictures I managed to get while keeping the dogs preoccupied so they wouldn’t go bonkers:

Okay, enough of nature, I’m home writing, writing, writing today on a new super big jewelry project, but first I wanted to share my morning visitor with the web world.

EDIT: Okay, now a FB friend says this is not a Kestral but is a Red-Shouldered Hawk.