We have hawks nesting in our woods, and crows roosting in the trees along one meadow. Woodpeckers tend to pound on our eaves, and you already know about the pesky starlings. There are also an alarming number of vultures cruising our skies, but this morning we saw the strangest sight yet:
What is it, you ask? That is a freakin’ helicopter trailing a COLUMN OF SPINNING CIRCULAR SAW BLADES! The power company has been trimming right-of-ways (rights-of-way?)since we arrived in January, and we were already pretty impressed by their trucks with huge circular saws mounted to extendable booms, then we saw this madness. Holy smokes. Here it is in action:
It’s going to be difficult to top this, but I’ll keep my eyes on the horizon.
I’m so bummed that the ‘action’ photo is just a photo. I want to see that craziness!
Me too! Unfortunately, this was as close as it got whilst cutting. It flew back over us on Monday, this time directly overhead giving a better view of the saws; that thing is like some sort of steampunk/medieval mashup.