It may have been the snowy owl, not so surprising given that this was at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport in a season when there were many reports from along the runways of snowy owls. My plane was at the top of a runway waiting for the signal to go, and there sat the dingy snowy owl on a cell phone tower right out my window. I ducked to see it better and it ducked to see, apparently, what was moving in the eye (one out a row of little airplane windows) of the plane nearest itself. I suppose the bird could have moved at that moment not because I had moved, but having often seen hawks on light poles turn their heads when I turn mine to see them better, I wonder if raptors are often looking through windows of the vehicles they sit over, knowing that the real characters are the creatures moving inside, behind the windows. If so, do the raptors suspect when they're being looked at?
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