Spring signs and a hawk PS

Sharron Crocker, a correspondent of this website, wrote yesterday [2/28/11]:

There are signs of spring everywhere -- here's a picture of the first Song Sparrow I've seen and heard this year ... it was being quite vocal for a long period of time ...

PS: Bruce Kerr writes:

I think Pale Beauty is quite an appropriate name for Pale Male's current mate as the Latin name for the Buzzard family [Buteo] is pronounced "Beauty-o"