This is Phill. And this is his stuffed animal so he called it that at least, kind of joking. It is actually a taxidermy. His "stuffed animal" is a Sharp-Shinned Hawk. The hawk is illegal to kill because it is listed as a species of concern.
Phill is our next door neighbor, he has two dogs, various amounts of cats and a Sharp-Shinned Hawk. He was working in his front yard today and we saw him so we said hi. He said hi too. I was telling him about Peacocks we saw today in Oak Glen. So, he told us about his hawk. He said he got the hawk in 1966, when he was about my age. He got it from an antique shop in Oak Glen for seven dollars. They told him the hawk was about 60 years old. So now the hawk is more than one hundred years old.
As he was walking out the door he told us of his grandfather who was a world class sprinter. And he said he had a scrap book. So maybe another day we can meet his grandfather through the scrap book and maybe it'll be in a different blog.
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