Image: “Paramount Ranch: Self Portrait 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 11 February 2026, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Paramount Ranch: Self Portrait 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 11 February 2026, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
- INTRODUCTION
- VIDEO BY ALICE
- SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
- NATURE NOTES
- VIDEO CREDITS
- CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION
Dear Ones,
This documentary was recorded a few days before Valentine’s Day. There is a discussion amongst Nandays and Ravens about a recent incident in which a Deer ate a Hawk’s babies (presumably by mistake) and the Hawk got even by blinding the Deer with its sharp, hooked beak.
There is a Summary after the video …
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
“Why Would Hawks Kill Deer? … and Happy Valentine’s Day”
By Alice B. Clagett
[Quick! MAX your Audio volume!
Then you can hear Ravens and Nandays speaking!]
Alice to Nanday: Nanday, Why would the Hawks want to kill the Deer?
Raven 1 to Raven 2 [repeating my question]:
Why would Hawks kill Deer?
Raven 2 to Raven 1: I don’t know.
Nanday 1 to Ravens: She asked NANDAY!
Nandays to Ravens: She asked NANDAY! She asked NANDAY!
Raven [undaunted] to Alice: Bad Hawk!
Nanday to Raven: SHUT UP, Raven!
Alice to Readers: The Ravens say, “I don’t know why the Hawks do that.”
And another one said …
Raven to Alice: That was a Bad Hawk!
Alice to Readers [continuing]: … “I don’t know why.”
[Nandays agree to tell me
it was an accident.
Raven (quite vocally) and I (silently}
disagree with this prestidigitation
(although Alice can see it might mollify Hawk).]
Alice to Nandays: Are you sure that’s what it is?
Raven to Nanday [doggedly]: That . was . a . bad . bad . Hawk.
Nanday 2 [tentatively suggesting a middle path]: It’s an accident?
Nanday to Alice: Right. It is a really BAD Hawk.
[Trying out the suggestion of Nanday 2]: It’s an AC-cident!
[Nanday explains it was an accident
that the Deer ate the Hawk’s babies up …
NOT an accident that the Hawk
blinded the erring Deer.]
Nanday 1: It is an AC-cident!
Nanday 2: Yep. An accident.
Nanday 1: Right.
Nanday 2: Right.
Nanday 1: Big old AC-cident.
Nanday 2: BIG ONE.
Alice to Nandays: Oh, the Deer ate their
babies up … so they got mad?
Nanday 1 to Nanday 2: Yeah. Ate their babies up.
Nanday 2 to Nanday 1: That’s right.
Alice to herself: It got mad.
Alice to Nandays: That … You know what? That …
that Hawk just went crazy. That’s all.
Raven to Alice: That’s a bad Hawk.
Alice to Ravens and Nandays: Just one crazy Hawk.
Don’t worry. It’ll end. Something will happen.
Nanday [hopefully]: Yeah. It will end.
Alice to Ravens and Nandays: It’ll be okay.
Nanday to Alice: Ex-ACT-ly!
Alice to Ravens and Nandays: The other Hawks … the other Hawks will find out and
they’ll do something.
Nanday to Alice: Yes, [they’ll] do something.
Alice to Ravens and Nandays: Yeah, they’ll do something.
Hawk [breathily, on the wind]: Look at ME. I’m a very BIG Hawk.
Nanday: They can!
Raven: Yes, they can.
Alice: They CAN. It’s a Big Hawk.
Nanday 1 to Nanday 2: That’s a Raven.
Hawk [or is this a Coyote? … breathily, on the wind]: No, I’m NOT a Raven.
Nanday 2 to Nanday 1: Not a Raven.
Alice to Nandays: It sounds like a Big Hawk.
Nanday 2: Sounds like a Big Hawk. NOT a Raven.
Nanday 1: Yeah. NOT A RAVEN.
Hawk [laughing, on the wind]: I am flying ….
Hawk [laughing, on the wind]: … over you.
Alice to Nandays: Not Red Tailed!
Nanday: D-mn it!
Alice to Nandays: Oh no!
Nanday: The biggest Hawk!
Alice to Nandays: Not a Red Tailed Hawk!
Nanday: Yes! The Biggest Hawk!
Hawk [laughing breathily]: I AM THE BIGGEST RED TAILED HAWK …
Hawk [laughing breathily]: .. OF ALL TIME!
Alice to Nandays and Hawk:
Oh no, a really big Hawk. Oh no!
Hawk [laughing breathily]: I am the Biggest Red Tailed Hawk …
Hawk [laughing breathily]: … of ALL the EARTH!
Alice to Ravens and Nandays: This is terrible news! They’re
so huge. Their wingspan is 5 feet.
Alice to Ravens and Nandays:
What am I supposed to do?
Their wingspan is as wide as I am tall.
Nanday: D-mn right!
Raven: Dharm, DON’T GIVE UP!
Alice to Ravens and Nandays: They’re really huge.
Nanday 1: D-mn right!
Nanday 2: D-mn right! Right!
Alice to Ravens and Nandays: We should hide. Let’s hide.
Nandays: D-mn right! … D-mmit!
Alice to Ravens and Nandays: We should
hide. Okay? Let’s hide from that Hawk.
Raven: That’s right!
Nanday 1: D-mn it!
Alice to Nanday 1:You won’t?!
Nanday 1: God d-mn it!
Alice to Nandays: Okay, you won’t hide?
Hawk [huffily, taken aback]: Oh NO! They won’t hide?
Raven [sounding mighty ornery – I think he is just playing]:
THEY WILL NOT HIDE. NOT …
Raven [sounding mighty ornery]: … HIDE!
Alice to Readers: Did you hear that?
“We will not hide, not hide.”
Alice to Nandays: Okay. I’m not hiding either.
Alice to Nandays: I’m strong and brave like you.
Nanday 1 to Alice: O-KAY!
Alice to Nandays: Yeah, we’re strong and brave.
Nanday 1: NAN-days …
Alice to Nandays: We’ll do that strong and brave thing.
Nanday 1: … ARE strong and brave!
Nanday 1: Yeah, d-mn right!
Alice to Nandays: Yep, that’s what we’ll do.
Nanday 2: Yep!
Nanday 1: Eat BA-bies!
Nanday 2: Yep!
Nanday 1: BA-bies!
Coyote: I’d say I WOULD say that.
Raven: Red Tailed Hawk would say that too.
Alice to all the beings: Thanks for talking.
Mountain Lion [huffing, calm, slow-paced, slightly amused
voice on the wind]: How COULD you …
Nanday: G-d, no!
Mountain Lion: … say that to the Mountain Lion?
Alice to all the beings [Mountain Lion is bound to take offense at this.
He loathes what he terms maudlin sentiment.
He considers I am insulting him any time I speak from my heart.
But here goes anyway]: Happy Valentine’s Day.
It’s Valentine’s Day in a couple of days.
Nanday 1 to Nanday 2: That Mountain Lion HATES her for that.
Alice to all the beings: [In] three more days it’s Valentine’s Day.
Mountain Lion to Alice: Cut that out right now. Valentine’s Day is …
Mountain Lion to Alice: … NOT what we like to hear about.
Nanday to Mountain Lion: RIGHT, RIGHT.
Strange Bird to other Birds: Just agree with him.
Strange Bird to Mountain Lion: RIGHT, RIGHT.
Strange Bird [frantically]: Just AGREE with him!
Alice to all the beings: then. Everybody’s supposed to love
everybody else and be kind to them.
Alice to all the beings: Valentine’s Day.
Nanday to Mountain Lion: Right, right!
Raven to Alice: Shut Up!
Mountain Lion [speaking in a relatively good humored,
on-top-of-it, Apex Predator way]: The Mountain Lion …
Nanday: G-d D-MMIT!
Raven [simultaneously]: SHUT UP!
Mountain Lion: … is getting AN-gry!
Alice to all beings: Yeah …
Alice to all beings: Valentine’s Day. Everybody’s supposed
to have one big heart on Valentine’s Day.
Mountain Lion: That Woman is starting to make me really angry.
Alice to all beings: Be kind. You could tell the Hawk.
Valentine’s Day. Yeah, pretty good.
Mountain Lion: THE MOUN-tain LIon …
Strange Bird [seconding the Mountain Lion]: G-d d-mmit!
STOP it! STOP it!
Alice to Strange Bird: Who is that?
Strange Bird: It’s a RAB-bit.
Alice to Strange Bird: RAB-bit?
Strange Bird: Yeah. A Rabbit.
Alice to Strange Bird: I could swear that’s not a Rabbit.
Mountain Lion: I could swear that …
Mountain Lion: … too!
Alice to all the beings: See you guys later.
Alice to all the beings: You know that
Ranger is going to … or that Man there, …
Alice to all the beings: … he’s going to try and find out
what’s going on … see what he can do.
Raven: I got that!
Alice to all the beings: … Men are good at that. They’re …
Alice to all the beings: … like …
Raven [sounding bossy, as if he were imitating the voice
of a man]: Yeah, They Are.
Alice to Raven: … they’re like Father Raven. They’re very strong …
Nanday [delighted]: RIGHT!
Alice to Raven and Nanday: … compared to people like me.
Alice to Raven and Nanday: Yeah.
Mountain Lion [grousingly]: I do feel that Father Raven
is NOT VERY STRONG.
[Ouch!]
Father Raven to Mountain Lion: I AM VERY STRONG!
Mountain Lion to Father Raven: You’re strong?
Alice to all the beings: There is that Big Guy …
NATURE NOTES
California Red-Tailed Hawks have a wingspan of 4 or 5 feet and a body length of about 2 feet. This bundle of fury can be quite daunting up close. That is what I have found out in my own hiking experience.
VIDEO CREDITS
“Why Would Hawks Kill Deer? … and Happy Valentine’s Day”
By Alice B. Clagett
Filmed on 11 February 2026 and produced on 20 May 2026
Location: Paramount Ranch, Santa Monica Mountains, CA
Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 International –
By Alice B. Clagett
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My website is “Awakening with Planet Earth”
CONCLUSION
Io lux et pax nobiscum.
Joy, light and peace be with us!
— Alice B. Clagett
“Dominus illuminatio mea et salus mea; quem timebo?”
The Lord is my Light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
Filmed on 11 February 2026 and published on 20 May 2026; transcribed and youtube transcription edited on 21 May 2026
NOTE: ‘Dharm’ is a familiar abbreviation of the first part of my spiritual name. ‘Dharm’ means ‘Dharma’, meaning ‘right action in the world’.
Image: “Paramount Ranch: Self-Portrait 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 11 February 2026, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Image: “Paramount Ranch: Self-Portrait 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 11 February 2026, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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