Birds are back -- again!

My good avian friends, mostly raptors, are back in profusion in recent days.  There's a new almost-balloon-shaped barred owl overseeing the garden.  Barred owls are pretty much shaped like a rugby football ball, with a head attached and those two huge eyes. There's a  new, small broadwing hawk watching over me and my truck from the telephone wires on Warwoman Road.  A pileated woodpecker matched me tree-to-tree on a parallel path on Glade Road recently.  And, not often seen this close to roads, a Ruffed Grouse flapped its way madly in front of the truck again -- where else -- but Warwoman.  That is one cool road, full of good bird omens.