Winter hawk


I took this photo of a Sharp-shinned Hawk outside our kitchen window last winter. Another (or perhaps the same one) is back, but not as bold. I’ve only seen her a couple of times over the past few weeks and am typically aware of her presence only because the other birds have disappeared, or frozen in place.

Wow! As I’m writing – this the hawk just landed on our deck railing about 12’ from where I’m sitting – what a beauty!


The doodle in the top left corner made me think of the photograph. A couple of hours of playing around in the evening and I figured that was it for that particular exercise. The poem “Still Life” just emerged the next morning. Hmmm… not unlike the Sharp-shinned a moment ago.

Author: chrisbkm

Chris Morrison was born on the north shore of Lake Superior and currently lives within moments of the Atlantic in Nova Scotia, Canada.

3 thoughts on “Winter hawk”

  2. We’re big fans of birds of prey (and birds in general) in our house.

    We had a little Sharpie stun herself on our window last year, poor thing. She recovered pretty quickly but we had Bird Rescue on the line….

    I was super excited to discover that there is a nesting pair (I believe) of falcons (Peregrines, I believe) on the roof of one of the buildings of the job I started last November. A very urban area with a noticeable dearth of pigeons…

    (And I’ve been meaning to mention–Love the gestural nature of your new (to me, at least) spate of drawings. Are they done digitally? My daughter has been getting quite the hand at drawing on the ipad….)

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    1. Ahhh. A fellow bird enthusiast. It’s a bit of a passion at this end. I send lists to eBird, more or less daily. I’m a big fan of the raptors as well, but am anxiously awaiting the arrival of the warblers too… I shouldn’t get started. In our backyard, I’ve identified over 116 different species of birds. Have shot literally thousands of photos.
      Cool that you’ve discovered the Peregrines, they’re making quite a comeback and very much in the urban settings you mention.

      Yes, all of those drawings I posted since getting back to WordPress are done on the iPad with an Apple Pencil. Awesome that your daughter is into it. Must say that I haven’t had as much fun drawing since I was a kid. It’s a big step up from an etch-a-sketch.

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