Wildlife drama, backyard style

It was short but scary.

Missy the Squirrel was enjoying her peanut. I was watching a hawk, very high, about 1/4 mile east, making lazy circles.

The circles kept getting closer, and I didn't like it, so I moved as close to Missy as I could get without scaring her off. Missy alerted and froze, but wasn't alerting on me.

The hawk came in feet first, but thought better of it at the level of the phone wires and flapped off.

I gave Missy another peanut.