bird

By anders pearson 19 Feb 2001

there was a big falcon or hawk (i’m not sure how to tell the difference) sitting on a light right outside the window of the sixth floor office i work in today.

my coworker, Peter, got this picture of it with his digital camera. the backlighting was a bitch and the window was really dirty so it’s kind of hard to make it out very well. there isn’t really anything to give you a sense of scale in the picture but i’d say that it was about 2-2.5 feet from head to tail. if anyone can make out enough to identify what kind of falcon/hawk it was, i’d like to know.

really neat to have a big, cool, beautiful bird sitting a couple feet away from you seperated by only a piece of glass. i was just waiting for it to swoop down, grab a freshman and start snacking. that would’ve made my day.