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Sarasota News Leader May 10, 2013 rels) started in. In time of danger, they stay in place in a tree-hugging, heads-down mode and loudly chitter-chatter gibberish that could warn one of anything from "Beware the Jubjub Bird" to "Shun the frumious Bandersnatch." A fat lot of help they are when trouble is nigh. Page 87 It was growing quite noisy and rowdy around the placid pond. I, however, remained quiet and still because a deathly fear had gripped me. I can only describe that fear by borrowing Edgar Allan Poe's words in The Pit and the Pendulum: "I had but escaped death in one form of agony, to be delivered unto worse than death in some other." You see, once again, I was forced to identify an immature Hawk to satisfy my readers' insatiable curiosity about our wondrous Florida creatures. Finally, the Blue Jays shrieked and began dive-bombing a shadowy presence perched in a palm branch right across the pond from me. I now knew for certain that a Hawk or large Owl was present. I opened one eye and carefully peered across the pond at the object. It was an immature hawk claiming the previous one's territory. He did this by loudly crying to Correctly identifying an immature Hawk is a anyone in or out of earshot, thus proclaiming form of torture invented by the Spanish Inquisition, and the only reason Poe's unnamed his rights to his new kingdom. Otus tries to hide as he peeks at the hawk. File photo