photo courtesy of www.palemale.com/
Octavia feeds the eyasses on Pale Male's Fifth Avenue nest.
From Chris Lyons, major watcher of the Fordham Hawks currently nesting on Webster Avenue-
Just saw one of those little white blobby things with a
black spot in the center--from quite a good distance away, through
binoculars, on the top floor of the building I work in, but I've been
doing this a while now. Popped up, looked around, settled back down
again. The female is sitting at the edge of the nest, looking down,
seemingly quite pleased with herself. She is mercifully spared
anticipation of the difficulties yet to come.
So normally joyous news, but now our preferential option--no
hatch, and our new queen decides this nest site sucks, and goes
somewhere better next time (like back to the campus) has failed to come
about. So we're stuck with option 2--search and rescue. We don't even
know the apartment number belonging to that window yet. That's where
the search part comes in.
Fingers crossed Chris, keep us posted!
Sorry about the lag in posts, for the last seven days I've been doing prescribed burns of prairies and wetlands. It has been a trip.
And nearly every burn had a Red-tailed Hawk nest on the periphery. These areas were Red-tail hunting ground which included a copse of trees for a nest and hunting perches with a prairie spread out before it
The latest was a prescribed burn of 125 acres of wetland prairie. One doesn't want to burn down anything accidentally of course but this particular wetland had a four million dollar house in the middle of it.
Photographs of rural Red-tailed Hawk nests and aforementioned burns will have to wait as the photo transfer function of blogger is down. Sigh.
And lest I forget, the Rose-breasted Grosbeak pair who stopped in for a bite at the feeder.
Sorry about the lag in posts, for the last seven days I've been doing prescribed burns of prairies and wetlands. It has been a trip.
And nearly every burn had a Red-tailed Hawk nest on the periphery. These areas were Red-tail hunting ground which included a copse of trees for a nest and hunting perches with a prairie spread out before it
The latest was a prescribed burn of 125 acres of wetland prairie. One doesn't want to burn down anything accidentally of course but this particular wetland had a four million dollar house in the middle of it.
Photographs of rural Red-tailed Hawk nests and aforementioned burns will have to wait as the photo transfer function of blogger is down. Sigh.
And lest I forget, the Rose-breasted Grosbeak pair who stopped in for a bite at the feeder.
From Robin of Illinois by way of Jackie of Tulsa--
A BEAVER CAM!
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ellis-bird-farm-far-beaver-lodge
It's inside the lodge, and a beaver has been on and off the screen.
MUCH MORE TO COME, PARTICULARLY WHEN THE PHOTO FUNCTION IS BACK UP!
Donegal Browne
It's inside the lodge, and a beaver has been on and off the screen.
MUCH MORE TO COME, PARTICULARLY WHEN THE PHOTO FUNCTION IS BACK UP!
Donegal Browne
3 comments:
What happenes to the prey for the RT when the prarie is burned? Seems like a bad thing to be planned during nesting season? Please explain the rationale since I have not clue about these things :)
http://www.coolestone.com/media/5741/Red-Hawk-Nest-Cam/
Hi Sally,
Though it is nesting season for raptors it is not yet nesting season for ground nesters or songbirds. As to prey, they flee the fire and experienced Red-tails come to watch. Lots of prey have underground burrows and they remain underground as these are grass fires for the most part and pass swiftly not heating up the ground. Prey is just more apparent when they reappear making prescribed burns a bonanza for Red-tailed Hawks.
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