Tuples and Attributes

When I took the dog out for her walk the other day, the quail were just exploding out of the underbrush. I found this odd, as they usually don’t pay that much attention to us. A moment later there was a thump as though someone had moved something in a nearby garage. Brindy and I continued our walk and on the way back I noticed something in front of the lobby door of one of our buildings. “How odd”, I thought, “that package is shaped like a hawk”. Of course, as I got closer I found that it really was a hawk that had stunned itself by flying into the window, hence the loud thump.

The hawk was obviously disoriented, but otherwise appeared unharmed. I texted my neighbors to warn them to be careful opening the lobby door. They went out about 20 minutes later and did not see any bird, so it seems to have recovered.

Nice to see one up close, but I didn’t want to upset it too much, so just snapped two pictures:

Here’s a closer look at the mark it left on the window; you can see the bird hit the window with wings spread: