Visited By A Raptor This Morning

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My wife and I spent this morning doing yard work in the front yard. Now, understand, yard work is my among my least favorite things to do because as a kid my parents would use having to rake the pine needles that never stopped falling from the long leaf pines in our yard in Wilmington as a way to punish me when I complained of being bored. Raking a sandy yard in Wilmington, North Carolina, on a summer day, was not an enjoyable task. My wife, on the other hand, loves doing yard work and doesn't understand my aversion to it. She was raised on a dairy farm and worked alongside her father. My father sat in the house watching TV and drinking beer while I sweated and raked. All that aside, this morning we raked the front yard, trimmed back some vines and low branches, edged the front walk, and used the edgings to fill some mole holes in the back yard the dogs had dug. While raking I heard a hawk screech nearby. When I looked up the hawk, a young one by the look, had perched in a tree in the back yard high enough up that I could see it from the front. I went inside and got my camera and was lucky enough the hawk stayed in the tree long enough for me to get some pictures. Getting to see such wildlife is one of the perks of having a bit of woods on our land. Do you often get to see wildlife where you live?