Wondrous Sightings No. 8 -- Broadwing of the Badlands

It swooped so fast in such a graceful curve today that I barely had time to stop the truck before it kissed a nearby white pine branch and then quickly dipped farther into deeper forests. Gone in about two seconds. The curve of its flight, like the sine-cosine dips of a radio wave, is beyond beautiful -- an omen of good.