I have thousands (well, quite a few!) posts to make. Visits to Kolkata, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Thattekkad in Kerala, B R Hills in Karnataka…field trips reports are clamouring to be made, photographs yelling to be uploaded…

The past few days, I’ve been walking mainly in the

Delmar Loop

area, as I had to visit the Post Office, the Library, the Farmer’s Market, and the gas station to buy milk….errands take precedence!

But today, I walked towards the Forest Park area for the first time. I was walking on

Lindell Boulevard

Where million-dollar (and up!) homes look out on to the Park…and lo and behold, two

RED-TAILED HAWKS

sailed past me and landed on a large tree in the park.

However, by the time I crossed the road and approached to train MLC2 on them, one took off again…but here’s the other one:

You can see why it’s got its name (now, that sentence is a great grammar lesson on when to use “it’s” with an apostrophe, and “its” without one!)…these raptors are FAR easier to spot, I must say, in the bare winter branches of the Forest Park trees!

I’m hoping also to see the Kestrel that I saw a lot of, in October….

Well, it’s off to bed I go….we’d been to the

Fox Theatre

to watch a

Mexican folk dance group

and had earlier belated wedding anniversary dinner with DnA at

Sen Thai Asian bistro

… a very nice evening….in fact, it’s been a lovely Saturday!