out my office window

then came a friend

maybe more than friends

just over the next yard, maybe 100 feet away

i think they got stage fright

A poster CJ on MTBR, who is on my blogroll cause he takes amazing nature pics, said they are Harris’s Hawks.   Apparently they hunt in cooperative family groups. When I was taking the pics, Turtle started meowing behind me – not sure if she saw them or not, but she has displayed a sufficient sense of self-preservation over the years for me to think she did and was wary.