surveilerEtymologyFrom surveil + -er.nounOne who surveils.“Overhead a buzzard soared, circling several times then flew down to a tree uprooted in the pathway - waiting and watching his intended victim. The old woman took a stick and ran toward it. Flitting from its perch; the huge bird circled again and flew down to a higher branch - still watching her. It was not fear for her own safety that prompted her defiance of the surveiler; but the welfare of the ”