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We have a new Cooper's hawk visiting our garden.

This one is a juvenile, maybe an offspring of the one who we used to see. Anyway he is still learning. A few weeks ago he caught a small bird. Probably not big enough to have justified the energy of catching it, but good practice. Yesterday he got a pigeon. The poor bird is still alive in these pictures. It was trying to move, but just resulted in the pair shuffeling along the grass.

We have not taken a real vacation for a while because of my medical issues over the past five years. I've been healthy, so we took a vacation to Utah and the Zion and Bryce canyons.

We stayed in Springdale, near the entrance of Zion. We took a couple of jeep tours around Zion and spent a day in the park. At Bryce we rode horseback down the canyon. A great way to see the park, but these old bones did have some troubles from the ride. We flew into Las Vegas and drove to Zion.

That way Susan ha (...)