TigerHawk

TigerHawk (ti*ger*hawk): n. 1. The title of this blog and the nom de plume of its founding blogger; 2. A deep bow to the Princeton Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes; 3. The nickname for Iowa's Hawkeye logo. Posts include thoughts of the day on international affairs, politics, things that strike us as hilarious and personal observations. The opinions we express are our own, and not those of each other, our employers, our relatives, our dead ancestors, or unrelated people of similar ethnicity.

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

The Fourth of July

By TigerHawk at 7/04/2007 01:51:00 PM

Yesterday evening, when it was already the Fourth of July in many parts of the world, I saw our neighborhood eagle again, this time in a tree high above our boathouse:

Happy Fourth of July!

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10 Comments:

By Anonymous, at Wed Jul 04, 03:47:00 PM:

Ahh yes he is getting on early to remind you what day it is HAPPY 4TH OF JULY SQUAWK SQUAWK

By Angevin13, at Wed Jul 04, 05:46:00 PM:

Have a great Fourth of July!

By Anonymous, at Wed Jul 04, 08:18:00 PM:

TH - I love this blog - we get it all from great geopolitical dialogue to unbeatable National Geographic shots! Unbelievable!

By TigerHawk, at Wed Jul 04, 09:53:00 PM:

QuakerCat, that was very nice of you to say. Thank you. A great Fourth to you, I hope.

By Anonymous, at Thu Jul 05, 09:32:00 AM:

Stunning!
So glad Ben Franklin didn't get his way in choosing our national bird.

By Georg Felis, at Thu Jul 05, 09:36:00 AM:

And always keep your mouth shut while watching them fly overhead.

By Anonymous, at Thu Jul 05, 12:06:00 PM:

Mrs G said:

"So glad Ben Franklin didn't get his way in choosing our national bird."

Jeez, I'd (thankfully) forgotten all about that. It's just stunning that such a gifted and far-sighted man would pick such a bird for our national symbol.

For those of you not in-the-know, would you like to guess just what this wise and wonderful man thought our national bird should be?

The dove?

The chicken?

Worse.

The turkey. :/

I did, however, come up with a fun thought while reading over Mrs G's comment. Given a delightful play on words, what bird most represents the Democrats' idea of what our national bird should be?

The quail.

Perhaps I should have said 'what our national bird should do'.

By Ray, at Thu Jul 05, 12:39:00 PM:

Wow! There are eagles in Princeton? The family's lived here for 8 years, and I didn't know we had any wildlife beyond a deer-and-rabbit problem, and some geese at the lake.

By TigerHawk, at Thu Jul 05, 12:59:00 PM:

No, Ray. We're up at our place in the Adirondacks, where there be eagles.

By Anonymous, at Sun Jul 08, 05:59:00 PM:

I got to see a BALD EAGLE sitting on its nest on the 4TH OF JULY what a treat