The Whole Family Soaring Together~

What an awesome thing to witness, just one bird of prey soaring. The way they begin circling in tight circles and then they begin to pick speed as they allow the current to free fly them up, up and sometimes way above the clouds and yet with the call of this species, you can still hear them, even when you can no longer see them. Yesterday afternoon, I heard a huge commotion going on. First the adult female took off from the grove and it sounded like she might well have been in our living room, she was so close. I then began hearing more than one hawk and grabbed my camera. Two were yelling back and forth to one another and the sound alone is thrill enough. I walked out a bit from under the trees to try to spot them. There they were high above me and they were truly having a ball, just yelling and chasing about and tumbling. I had taken several images when to the lower right of the frame came a third hawk, the adult male and while I only got off one shot of him before he flew off in the other direction, he still continued to also yell to his mate and their offspring. The ride lifted them high above the clouds until I could no longer see them yet the magic of what joy they bring my way, is still delightful. The young Eyas is in it's fourth month now and that alone is hard to believe. I love a good outcome and this is certainly what I had hoped for~