The morning slipped by rather fast and the coffee pot emptied faster than normal as I edited some images. When I was about to transition from editor to getting my daily dose of sunshine, my phone rang. It was a representative in the field for Oncor, the electric delivery arm for TXU Energy, better known as just TXU. I call them, 'the Edison'. Electric Utilities up north are know as 'the Edison' and I grew up knowing my childhood electric power company as the 'Power and Light'. Basically, I like 'Edison' better. She said that she would be here in about 10-minutes to run the meter test and needed the meter closet unlocked.
Oncor changed over the meters to the new digital meters over a year ago and frankly, people have been a bit concerned and do not trust the new meters as much as the old ones. Because of that, Oncor provides a free meter check. I had not used mine because I had not had any issues...until this past month.
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| Here, the male relanded just below his mate. The nest may be along White Rock Creek in the deep woods. This tree is surrounded by traffic on three sides. |
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| This is the male taking flight but he didin't leave the tree. I ended up just below his mate. |
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| The male is on the left side and the hen is on the right side of the tree just a bit higher. |
By the time I got done, I had a late start and the cloud cover was beginning to move in again. I was looking for the Buffelhead
ducks that I had seen yesterday. After making an uneventful trip around
the lake, I was on the way home and was one intersection away from
being out of the park when I spot a hawk sitting as pretty as you
please high up in a large tulip tree. Then, I spotted the mate sitting
near her in the same tree. Dang! A double header if I wanted the
general shot. I did. It was a good twenty minutes of shooting. I sure
wished I had my longer lens that I have and can't use because it doesn't
fit this camera.
We have a couple of days coming up over the weekend with temps into the 70s. The question is how much cloud cover we are going to have.
