chicken snipers

and cold this morning. The first awe of the day was early, after feeding the chickens. I wandered down the drive and startled up two red tail hawks, who were standing on the road just over the edge of the sun line made by the eastern hill.
Perhaps they were a pair, because though it seems early, hawks are well on their way to creating next years birds by february, or maybe they were just snipers, laying low, watching for the first pullets that fly over and out of the chicken pen each morning.