It's been weeks since I've happened upon a hawk and honestly, I was getting worried. They're a part of the landscape here, a touchstone, and if too much time goes by without a close encounter, you start to wonder.

This guy was wondering, too, whether the person under the tree was ever going to press the shutter release and get the shot and move along already, wondering how many photos do you need, silly human, when there are rodents to hunt and thermals to ride and a hawk's wild life to be lived?