An Exciting Sighting

They're back! We think.  While Mont was hanging up his laundry this morning, he heard a hawk up in the top of the nest and rushed inside (followed closely by Lyn and Elizabeth) to look at the video camera.  Sure enough, a hawk was sitting smack dab in the center of our manufactured nest, facing the camera.  The hawk (he or she, we aren't sure) stepped gingerly from side to side as if trying things out, while the three of us frantically tried to figure out how to record the live video feed.  We only succeeded in disrupting the broadcast, so that although we could still watch the video recording, we couldn't get it to broadcast to the website.  But after about five minutes, the mystery hawk took to the air again, to be joined by another hawk.  They are definitely a nesting pair.  For the next half hour they circled the garden, landing in a tall oak tree at the back of the property.  Unfortunately, they were too high up to get a decent picture.  However, we will figure out how to record the camera signal, so that when (hopefully) they come back, we will at least be able to post some movie clips.  Ideally, we will be able to watch them build their nest, and record the process.