While Daddy was driving the other day, he came upon a hawk, though at first glance, he didn't recognize it as any of our normal hawks. We've had quite a few eagles and hawks of many kinds around here, except this one he caught on his phone. So when he got home, he searched the internet for the right bird.
Turns out we have an osprey hawk soaring over our ranch.
The osprey — also called fish eagle, sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk — is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor, reaching more than 60 cm in length and 180 cm across the wings.
~Wikipedia
You can imagine how excited we all were to not only see a new hawk here, but also to actually have a good picture of it.
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Yesterday we 5 worked some older heifers (3 Longhorns and 6 Corrientes) who hadn't been branded or ear tagged yet. They are too big to flank, so we ran them through the chute. The process was much like I explained in the post titled, "I'm on a Roll" posted in Oct. of 2014.
One heifer was not a happy camper when we put her in the ally way before the chute and she fully displayed her anger. In all of her jumping in the chute, she managed to hit a release lever and freed herself before we got her tagged or branded.
She went crazy in the pens surrounding the chute. She jumped into fences, rammed into things, and even attempted to chase us. It was very chaotic until I opened a gate and let the wild heifer out into the pasture. She pranced westward, having no intention to stay close to the cow herd just a few yards north.
Thankfully, Dad found her in one pasture over today. No, she shouldn't be in there, but it sure beats her completely getting out and finding a road or getting lost.
We will gather her up sometime in the near future and give her the trip to town she earned (sell her).
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