gigamatic

As I was sipping a non-alcoholic Nutty Irishman, wandering the campus yesterday with a certain nameless instructional technologist, we saw a small group gathered at the east end of the Oval, watching a very large bird.

When we got there, we saw it was a hawk, eating a squirrel. He apparently finished, and then flew up to the steps in front of Hughes Hall. We continued walking, and then stopped again to admire him. HUGE and very beautiful. He wasnt really intimidated by people. (Someone's escaped falcon? Who knows.) He hopped up into a tree just outside the southeast stairwell, and people were watching from inside (which we eventually did, too, just to get a closer view). Amazing. Massive claws. Beautiful eyes and feathers. Why was he just sitting there? Don't know.

Every student with a camera phone was busy snapping photos, and I would've been too. It was one of those moments like the commercial with the Bigfoot. Ah, technology, how far behind I feel.

I wonder if someone from the Lantern eventually got a shot. I'll have to check today... it must've thought it had hit a veritable buffet on the oval... all the trees filled with fat squirrels.

Nature on campus. How cool is that.