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THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYTHING Ecclestastes 3:1, The Living Bible, Tyndale House
“Hereby perceive we the LOVE OF GOD...’
A CK MAMA
Dear Mercedes,
Letters from F.S. Lentz,
Dear Mercedes,
— Suitcase Interrupted —
Spring is in full tide here. Anymore
than 1 could park my rear end in some
dreary college classroom when spring
in the sixties hit Waco can I devote
the intensity needed to get something
legible down about that book...not
today.
The evidence of heavy rains last
August is now seen. Every wild plant
that can grow, is. Many that are semi-
wild, like the favored blue bonnets,
are, as well.
For once, a prediction has come
about on the bluebonnets. Even if
every kid who drives a dirt bike in San
Antonio ran them into the ground
today (I have only had to lecture one
on that subject...) it will have been a
bumper year for them.
The grief I took for ‘obsessing’
about them is forgotten in the deep
patch of blue that sits athwart the
wide creek bed here.
And as serendipity, there are
enough of them to give off the distinct
bouquet. It does take a certain scale
of ‘patch’ to do that. Learned that
driving a freight truck, windows open,
out the MacGregor highway in the
spring of 1968.
There is no fragrance captured in
any bottle or yet manufactured that I
know of that even comes close. Were
there, another perfume magnate
would grow. May be owing to the
Hawk-boy didn’t show and that
was fine. He will, I am reasonably
certain.
I have now as resident a juvenile
Red Shouldered hawk (Buteo
lineatus, and a nod to Virginia Bunton
and the late esteemed J.C. McQueen).
He drove me crazy at first because
he was mostly white. My books said
that color and size belonged to a
Ferruginous Hawk. The book also
said that they are rare here, as in
probably not a F.H. I called Mr.
Graves, who is seldom mistaken when
it comes to .birds. He suggested that
it might be a juvenile something.
I called Pete Moore, Esq., of South
Padre Island, a man of birds
extraordinaire.
He said a Ferruginous was
identified around San Marcos a few
years, ago. Well, San Antonio IS
around San Marcos, but...
A few weeks after the first
sighting, hawk-boy returned. Brown
chest stripes appeared now, a darker
head. Yes, that is a juvenile,
I was walking toward the patch,
down the back yard and this guy
buzzed me. He flew by my ear about
two feet away, same height as my
eyes. He then landed up on my bat
earthworms, small snakes, whatever
animal tissue he could find. I had
never seen anything like it.
Once filled, he flew gently up into
my favorite mesquite tree, ten
measured feet from me, and simply
peered while he rested. After another
ten minutes, he flew off, east up the
draw, not above twenty feet off the
floor, and disappeared.
Another neighbor further down
the creek has found the nest. I now
think that Hawk-boy might be Hawk-
girl who was out gathering food for
some vocal hawk nestlings. Other
neighbor has heard the screeches arid -
seen two ‘big’ hawks attending to
them.
There is something about having
even a tentative truce with a hawk.
There are squirrels aplenty here and
to spare. Whatever makes it easier to
keep the Goldfinches, and now one
Lesser Goldfinch, fed is good with me.
Squirrels are grain robbers. I am a
grain provider.
* * *
Hawks are scarce. They scare my
finches, but not for very long.
Finches, like hummingbirds are plucky
creatures. They will fight off the nasty
Starlings and Grackles.
Speaking of Humming-
house, 14 feet off the ground and birds...yesterday my first one showed
rested..
I froze, went down on one knee
and gazed. He was not in least
small amount of fragrance produced bothered by my presence. I figured
back up, a motley brown bird, a female,
probably a Black Chinned. Besides
that, this morning I had a first.
I happened to be looking almost
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by each bloom. The patch that first
intoxicated me was about 100 acre-
size. Mine is about thirty yards by
forty yards.
I was sitting down waiting for
hawk-boy to show up and give me a
good photograph, sitting down inside
the patch where none have grown.
The breeze shifted, a breeze so slight
that it was felt only on the hair of a
that being juvenile, he had not learned straight up when a Scissor-Tailed
the ‘be wary of man’ lesson yet. Flycatcher flew over — old Tyrannus
He then flew under then up and forficatus.
landed in one of the thirty-odd live They live in the area, but for their
oaks that grow around the fringes of own reasons have come no closer
the patch. There he sat for a long time, than a mile south of here, until now.
ten minutes, and stared around at I welcome them, gratefully. Up
everything. I moved slowly up to close they are as beautifully,
within twenty feet, measured later, of handsomely colored a bird as has
him. He didn’t budge but kept his scan
bare leg, more like goose bumps than moving the whole time.
air passing.
Then he dropped down to the
It was enough to gather and ground between him and me. My
launch a bank of fragrance up and neighbor happened into his back yard
into my olfactory. and I made hand signals to him. He
It makes you close your eyes and began watching intently too.
just smell as deeply and thoroughly Hawk-boy proceeded to walk
as you can. - " around like a Mockingbird, picking at
been created. They are voracious
mosquito eaters and are unmistakable
in their appearance with the long,
skinny tail feathers.
By fighter plane maneuverability
standards, they are good flyers. It was
good to see them. Even great.
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