They returned the third nestling to the nest.

The most incredible photo is here:
http://www2.fi.edu/images/hawkjun82.jpg

...showing the wildlife rehab guy, holding her, just inside the window before placing her back on the ledge (where she hopped back over to the nest, where I ( Read more... )

The short version: one of the hawks tried to fly before she was ready, and had to be rescued, but it all turned out okay because so many people were watching them, cheering them on, that they caught her distress before it turned into a tragedy ( Read more... )

Who would have thought, the little late hawk, the tiniest one, would be the bravest and boldest and first to go? I'm watching him take off and land, take off and land from the nest. He looks around at his siblings as if to say "Whatchoo hangin' around here for? There's a whole world out there!" Then he cocks his head this way and that, and then ( Read more... )

Someone with a much better camera than I has gone down and taken some good shots of the nest on the Parkway.


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One hawk baby, sittin' in the nest...


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So yesterday I went over to visit the hawks and see how the situation is ( Read more... )

They're not quite teenaged, yet...that will happen when feathers start growing in.

They're just long, and gawky, with pointy faces, and they stand up and walk around and flap their wings like they're imagining the rush of wind through them, already.


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Hawk family snapshots, for today. The whole family is present, and half a rabbit lays off to the side (left side of screen.)

Here they are, all in a line.
LOOK HOW BIG THEY ARE!!!


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I've been crazy busy. I have done so much in the past few days, I can't even begin to sum it up here. I am tired and my shoulders are aching.

HOWEVER, we have a vegetable garden. That is the best, most important Good Thing, and the best, most important result of the last few days.

And my hawk babies are growing and doing quite well:

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