Grub, the Hawk

This synchro comes from Renee Prince. She’s a former marine biologist who now works as an artist on movie sets.  She had a life changing dolphin synchro some years ago,  and enjoyed an unusual friendship with a hawk, Tennerin, about whom she has written a book that is now making the rounds of publishers. Tennerin didn’t reappear this year and Renee wonders if he/she has started a family elsewhere.

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My mother and I were talking yesterday afternoon about the several hawks that have come by the house lately, including one that shyly watched us from a tree near the house for over two hours. He stared at me intently when I walked down to talk to him and even flew closer when I left out some food in hopes of tempting him down.

I knew this hawk wasn’t Tennerin because he wouldn’t fly to me but he certainly seemed to be familiar with me and fascinated with us. We wondered if he might be “Grub,” a name my sister Wendy jokingly gave the young hawk who showed up a couple of years ago one winter. Grub  hung around in the trees in our yard watching us intently, too shy to come all the way in to eat our food, but obviously accepted by Tennerin, even in his home range around our house. We had speculated then that “Grub” might be the son of Tennerin—and that this gave him a special dispensation to share Tennerin’s home. In talking about Grub yesterday we resolved that if this shy hawk visitor was Grub, returned, we would think of a more sophisticated name for “Grub”.

The next day, today, I was looking up authors and animal consciousness activists/scientists for endorsements for my hawk book. I suddenly thought of Marc Bekoff, a scientist and great animal advocate who wrote the bestselling book The Emotional Lives of Animals. As I caught up on Marc, I learned he was partnering with Jane Goodall in teaching the ethics of our treatment of animals as fellow beings to groups of children and the general public.

I wondered if perhaps I should also ask Jane Goodall for an endorsement. So I checked her website, looking for contact information, reading her FAQ page hoping for an email address, and happened across this line about her family: Jane has a son named Hugo Eric Louis; however, he is known as “Grub” to his family and friends.

So I guess our shy little Grub hawk, if he shows up again tomorrow, will now go by the fine appellation “Hugo Eric Louis.”