We took a little round about drive today...my throat is scratchy and I did not feel like sitting at home. So, we stopped at Mansfield, and headed home via back roads. I had been watching all day for an turkeys and/or an eagle. No luck with the turkeys...but we were easing along a road between Bridgeton and Mansfield and this big handsome fellow took off from right beside our Rav...
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I was so startled I could not react quick enough. He literally had flown right over the top of the Rav....he had to have been sitting in the tree right beside the road, but I had been watching the other way never expecting one to be right there next to the road.
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I was literally shaking with excitement so bad I could not hold my camera still! I don't know why I do that sometimes...
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Oh, and by the way, even though his mouth is open, he was not making a sound....