Some are decorative, like "The Falconer," a pretty medieval boy with a hawk perched on his hand, who enlivens a rock pile at the 72d Street Transverse.

Beside her, Darkwind leaned back against the rock supporting him, and stared at the red-shouldered hawk perched above the door of the lair, her head up and into the wind, her wings slightly mantled.

Diversion comes from watching farm equipment lumbering on the highway or spying red-tailed hawks perched like sentinels on fence posts.

Flanked by undulating velvety green hills, we meandered along past hawks perched on fence posts and cows, that, like all creatures in California, were better-looking then their Northeastern counterparts.

Some of us were looking up in awe at a hawk perched on a lamppost.

It is modeled after a hawk perched on a rock and is encrusted with red garnets, amethysts, emeralds and blue sapphires.

Far in the distance Eric could make out the familiar shape of Miranda Sikes's cabin, the ubiquitous white hawk perched on the peak of the roof.

And she could see the hawk, perched at the very peak of the roof, stretching its wings restlessly, its head bobbing back and forth as its red eyes fixed on her.

Lightly armed, with his vizor open and a hawk perched upon his left wrist, he looked about him with the careless air of a man who is bent wholly upon pleasure, and unconscious of the possibility of danger.

The news media, by definition and necessity, are like hawks, perched to prey on something new and fresh, even if the story is old.