Thanks Hawk family for helping me procrastinate

The girls and I leave in a few days for a trip back to Massachusetts to see loved ones and loved places.  Gramma Deb is here on a visit and happily occupying Ada in her current life as a non-napper and Emma is sleeping.  I have a gazillion things I want to get done before we leave and instead of using this sacred nap time to get things done I am here.  Blogging.  

The hawks have been fairly off my radar for a few days but Mr. Hawk was just calling and caught our attention.  I decided to grab our new camera (SO EXCITED) and give the new and improved zoom a try.  Here are the results.

Mr. Hawk is keeping guard in a nearby birch tree.  We watched him scare away some birds from the maple next to where Mrs. Hawk is sitting in the nest.

Don't make me come down there...I had been taking pictures of the Mrs. just before he started this little display.  

Mrs. Hawk

I zoomed out so you can get the sense of how dense the tree is and how well hidden she is.

She is pretty used to me checking her out but was still not convinced she wanted me there.  I'm hoping there might be a baby any day- I really hope we get to see it/them if so.