Slow Motion: One bird crashes into the nest with a very small stick, while its mate gracefully takes off. 

 

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.

Mary Oliver, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
(via bookmania)

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Red-tailed hawks starting to build their nest after being evicted from the AC unit they called home last year (a few blocks away).