Everything old is new again

It's nice that a year is so long.  By the time daylight savings time rolled around I had totally forgotten what it was like to have the days end so soon!  It feels like midnight and it's only 7 pm. I forgot that we have to leave for our bikeride by 4 if we don't want to bike home in the dim.  I forgot that now dinner is over by 7, whereas in the summer we often don't even start cooking until 9 pm.  When it comes time to get out the Christmas boxes I will have totally forgotten what light strand goes where.

We saw this gorgeous red shouldered hawk in one of our plots the last time we were in the field.  It is quite tame and I'm pretty sure we saw this same hawk when were were in this plot over a year ago. I happened to see it fly in with a mole it had just caught.  Five hours later Ted and I were back at that spot and it was still on the same branch, still eating the mole.  We got to see it finish its meal. It was still on the branch when we left the area a bit later. 

Also saw this flock of turkeys.  I had been hearing them off and on all day.