Feather-stalking tails*

A prized tail feather from a Red-tailed Hawk -- same species that grew up before our eyes via MIT's HawkCam, blogged here and here and here -- catches Tiny's eye. We found the feather during walkies today. Maybe it was from that Red-tailed Hawk we spotted in the neighbor's old spruce -- blogged here -- last winter.

Emerging from telephone booth in Supercat guise, mild-mannered couch cat Baby Cakes swoops in to nab elusive feather.

*A play on Leatherstocking Tales, James Fenimore Cooper's "series of five fast-paced adventure novels, a saga of 18th-century life among Native Americans and white pioneers on the New York State frontier. The novels feature Natty Bumppo, the ideal North American frontiersman, variously known as Leatherstocking, Hawkeye, the Deerslayer, and the Pathfinder."

Click here for portrait of Goomp's Lucie as Catty Bumppo, "The Last of the Meow-hicans."

Comments

[Cat]

That's not a red-tailed hawk feather. It's a turkey feather.