Transcendent hawk.
Soaring above us all.
Watching everything,
engaging nothing.
Touching earth only for a bite,
and then sailing up again,
catching wind drafts with a friend.
Forever, chasing rainbows.
Cheers to you from The Holler and her hawks~
Freedom in blue. ^_^
Works for me too!
Stunning beautiful photos Cindy 😀
I asked you where you would visit in Spain, because I wished to help you to see the beauty, where ever in Spain you will stay in that travel.
Oh yes, thank you for offering this, I didn’t see it. Sorry. We will be in Madrid (first time) and Barcelona (third time) for a chunk of time, and then brief visits to Cartagena for a third time, Valencia, Seville, Mallorca and Malaga. Any ideas from you would be greatly appreciated. Where are you living?
I will do my best to give you some ideas about what to see Cindy. Have you been visiting some of the Natural Parcs in Spain before?
I live in Valencia Area East close to Tarragona in Catalonia.
increfible
Thank you and I am glad you like them!
As if the hawk photos weren’t breathtaking enough…that rainbow! Wow.
Awwww, you are a wonderful person! ❤
Stunning Cindy, perfect light that highlights every feather and the images are so sharp and that rainbow is beautiful. Did you get rain? You live in such a beautiful part of the world.
Ahhh, thank you Pauline. We had three days of sorely needed rain, and then no more. No rain in the forseeable forecast either. It is quite sad for the wild ones.
Do you have any irrigation for your garden etc Cindy? We have a spear pump, which is in use at the moment, but it is not as good for the plants as rain. We have rain forecast for this weekend.
Blissful!
They rise above everything, lucky creatures~
Truly beautiful photos and such clear skies.We keep seeing azorean buzzards but the skies are ver stormy here in the Azores. Have met many good folk doing their bit for conservation. Have you visited?
I have and I am in love with the gorgeous Azores! Here is just one of my posts of several on the Azores. Lucky you! Enjoy~
https://cindyknoke.com/2015/05/04/azores-dreaming/
Oh lovely, thought you might have been and will follow your link.
Gorgeous photos of gorgeous hawks. Crystal blue skies behind them! 😀
And you are getting your first snow in your new home, so exciting for a former sun-belter! I can’t wait to here more about your new home~
Sorry to be so late getting back. Exciting isn’t the term I was using! LOL! I’m so far behind and seem to be having trouble getting organized! 😀
I can well understand, moving is so disruptive. No worries. We’re here. Take your time! ❤
An absolutely stunning post, Cindy! Thank you!
Anything for you Resa! ❤
Amazing captures, Cindy. Oh to be able to soar like an eagle. 🙂
Yes! Maybe in our next life????? 😉
All are amazing !
Mi grazi!
Welcome!
Los halcones, y el resto de rapaces, son aves muy interesantes. Muy buena la serie de fotos con el arcoiris cerrando el conjunto. ¡Felicidades, Cindy!
Felicidades mi amiga! Muchas gracias por su palabres muy amabale y tiene una buena fin del semana~ ❤
Wonderful photos Cindy, such a picture of freedom, and that rainbow too, spectacular. 🙂
Ahhhh, so kind and so appreciated!
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Simply majestic! ⋛⋋( ‘◇’)⋌⋚
Your emoticons are way too cool for school! 😉 ⋛⋋( ‘◇’)⋌⋚
Gracias, my friend! (☆▽☆)
As beautiful as a poem 🙂
Oscar
P.S. my recent poem was for my brother whose wife died 10 years ago this week.
It was really moving. Thank you for telling me.
Cindy, thank you so much for the book recommendation. It is a fantastic book and I did not think that people wrote like that any more. It is a revelation. Now only if I can get my hands on the TH White book as well 🙂 I haven’t been reading much the last few months since the workstation got short-circuited and caught fire. Lost my six hard disks which had over 6000 ebooks, years of collecting etc. (Worse, my daughter dropped my tablet and broke it. It had quite a few ebooks on it too, around 900 of them. Depressing. I used to read on the tab, at least). But this one is superb. Her language is amazing and I am overjoyed – both the writing as well as the subject. 🙂 Thank you so much.
Yes, I had read the White books years ago and my son is a fan as well, so the parallels were fascinating to me. The author is brilliant on so many levels. I am very happy to hear you are enjoying the book.
Losing all your collected hard drives and ebooks is horrible. Now you know a bit of how Cleopatra must have felt when her library burned in Alexandria! Are you able to buy a new tablet and get the vendor to transfer at least your tablet stored prior books? I hope you are. If not I am sorry. I am sorry anyway. I know it is a big loss.
I have a Kindle Fire (which I don’t like much; the Acer was huge both in terms of screen space as well as storage). However, I am unable to retrieve the content. The same with the hard disks. Still trying. Been trying for the last few months now. Will be getting new equipment soon, so maybe I can try later this month. (Only if I could buy new hands, hehe). My daughter’s photos are also on one of the drives, around 15,000 of them. (Oddly, this used to be one of my skills in the past – recovering data for people and conducting forensics tests on storage media. Hahaha. Now when I have to do it for myself, I am struggling).
About libraries, I need look no farther for sadness than my own little library here. We used to have close to 17,000 books, collected over the last four decades and then our family disputes, ceaseless as they were, took over. My father wanted some, the rest he discarded; then my spiteful wuss of a brother wanted a share and so he had a few; my mother wanted to display her literary tastes and she had a few; so I am left with the unwanted collections and the torn remains of so many mutilated books. Bah! Never mind. One day I shall rebuild the whole thing and replace the lost books. Only half the collection now and the best are gone. What upset me was the way they dumped the books they did not want. I have just left them stored in little cardboard boxes since they took away some of the cabinets and shelves too. (I am a sinner too. Just did not want to look at the library at all after that. It is a huge room, and I despair at the thought of setting everything right. When I had it built, I used to love the room. Even used to sleep there at times. Maybe some day I can restore it).
Sorry about the long comment again. Take care.
Oh what a beautiful photo’s 🙂 Great to watch them 🙂
So very pleased you enjoyed them & thank you!
GOD photos and description. Brief but precise
Merc beaucoup!
Cindy, these are GORGEOUS shots! I think we have red-tailed hawks here, and they’re so majestic. I’m a bit nervous when Dallas is outside and I see one circling, though reason tells me my Sheltie is far too heavy for them to scoop up!!
Shelties are a bit big and their fur makes them look bigger. Female red tails can have a 56″ wing span though, so I would’ve been uncomfortable when my pomeranian was alive. Pomeranians are not Holler dogs by a long shot! Plus there are loads of coyotes whose photos I’ve been taking and Great Hornerd Owls too. Rabbits, rats, gophers and snakes are more to the palate of the red tails~
I do love owls and can’t wait to see your photos of them!
I love them too and have never lived with them before so it is a thrill for me!
Cindy those birds are kings of the sky. What exquisite pics of nature at its best. and that rainbow!! Sharing these now!! 😉 xoxo
Friends like you are why I blog! Happy weekend~ ❤ ❤
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So thoughtful and so appreciated! ❤
A beautiful series of images- what a beautiful reminder of nature’s many gifts
Thank you. Mother Nature is the most incredible artist!
Oh, wow, great pictures!
Mil grazi Michele! ❤
What an amazing sequence of photos Cindy – and what an amazing photographer you are!
Awwwww, you are very kind Dor and hope your foot is healing~ ❤
Stunning series of shots. You are certainly a skilled photographer. What a majestic bird!
Thank you and so pleased you see these birds as I do, noble and majestic!. Cheers & Happy weekend~
One leg of the compass can’t do better! Great shot , nature is fine. 🌟
Thanks much & cheers to you~
awesome photos
Mil grazie!
Spectacular photos, Cindy! 😊
So motivating and so appreciated! Thank you & cheers too~
Cindy, these are incredible captures. Wow, what beautiful creatures.
Blessings ~ Wendy
Blessings back to you Wendy and thank you for your kindness my friend~
Purrfect pictures to start the day with, Cindy, but I am wondering…that wasn’t my mousie, was it? Double Pawkiss for a wonderful day 🙂 ❤
It was your rattie I’m afraid! Poor rattie~
Trying to play a little catch up and wanted my comment here to say what beautiful captures you are getting! Love them all!
Awwww, hearing from you Eunice is a joy my friend! ❤
🙂 I worry about you out there damn your coyote are well fed
Yes, they are the healthiest coyotes I have ever seen!
Gorgeous shots, Cindy! You’ve captured the beauty, grace, and fierceness of these creatures. I’m curious what lens you were using.
How lovely of you! Thank you and it is the Sony HX400 with an adjustable 1200mm equivalent zoom lens.
Magnificent birds. Great capture Cindy. Was dinner a lizard or a snake? –Curt
Thank you Curt! It was a rat!!
Darn, the tail sure fooled me. Guess I am going to have to turn in my animal ID merit badge. 🙂 –Curt
Wow, that is one wicked camera lens you have! Loving the Rainbow!
You must be seeing some in Maui. Maui is the land of rainbows!
We didn’t get a stitch of Rain, not a bad thing though 😀
No, particularly since you were going for the sunshine. Happy for you! ❤
I had one fly right over my head once, and it was a fright! I’m always happy now when they are high overhead.
My doctor got strafed twice by a nesting red-tail. He made the national news the first time. He had to get stiches. I can’t believe he walked under the nest AGAIN!
Luckily I ducked. 😉
Ducking prevents one from looking like a silly, hawk strafed, goose! 😉
Wow, wonderful photos Cindy.
Alison
Gracias a mi amiga y espero que tu tienes un tiempo maravilloso en San Miguel. Mi encantaria visitar Queretaro y Zacatecas con tu! Que la vaya bien. ❤
I can actually understand this, though obviously your Spanish is way better than mine. Queretaro y Zacatecas are maybe’s at this point.
Hope you are enjoying yourself and look forward to hearing and seeing more about your experience. Be well Alison. ❤
Those raptors look majestic and menacing.
More majestic than menacing unless you are a rodent or a snake! If I were a mouse, I would be terrified of them~
Wow! What fantastic photos of these incredible birds!
Awwww, thanks so much. I admire them so~
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Beautiful photos…serene and soothing.
🙂
So grateful of your support for our often unfairly maligned hawks! Thank you & cheers to you~
Great pictures of these magnificent creatures!
Aren’t they incredible, like your osprey. I love raptors and know you do too! ❤
Ah, dem beautiful red-tails. They are simply glorious, (and don’t they know it) !!! I envy you, Cindy. I so seldom see one around here. Used to see them all the time on the farm where I grew up. Nice pics ! 🙂
Glorious is the word that best describes them. They are curious too, with people they are familiar with and will fly low to see what’s going on, but never too close. They like a certain distance from human beings. Smart birds!
Lovely Cindy!! You bring the best of life to our blogging community!
So do you Rebecca and it wouldn’t be the same without you my friend. Be well~ ❤
Beautiful subtle coloring on these creatures!! Love it Cindy.
You are very thoughtful and very much appreciated. Thank you! ❤
Magnificent photos
I missed you comment! I am so sorry and thank you!
Amazing! Majestic! Great shots Cindy!
I am so sorry I missed your comment. Thank you so much for your thougthfulness & cheers to you~
No worries. I am glad for the opportunity to connect with you!
It totally bugs me that I missed your comment and I am grateful for your understanding! ❤
hi cindy
you take beautiful wildlife pictures
I was wondering what kind of a camera you use
thanking you my best regards Matt
Hi Cindy, you might want to read this http://scroll.in/article/803137/how-helen-macdonald-combined-nature-writing-grief-memoir-and-biography-into-one-genre-bending-book
I was so surprised. I just finished reading the book – thank you so much for recommending this one. It felt familiar and different at the same time. I wish I had gone to the Jaipur Lit-Fest after all. I usually detest those things. Thank you for suggesting that I read this book. It was wonderful.
Oh, I am so glad you enjoyed the book as I did. Not everyone “gets it,” so I am really pleased you did and thank you for the link to the author interview. She is amazing isn’t she! Wonderful to hear her thoughts and thank you very much my friend~
Stunning images! I love the last one with the rainbow 🙂
So pleased that you do and thank you very much Cristina~
Beautiful…
hi cindy you take beautiful wildlife pictures
i was wondering what kind of camera you use
my kind regards Matt