Checks of the Red-tailed Hawk nest yesterday morning and afternoon found no young hawks at either visit. In the morning, at least one of the fledglings was perched on a high roof at Open Square (shown above), and I watched as one of the adults brought in breakfast. The other siblings weren’t in sight. Last year, the fledglings all but…
Holyoke hawk fledging update: One step at a time
All three siblings were on the nesting platform this evening, despite the fact that at least two have now taken their first flights. On Monday morning I spotted one fledgling on a rooftop near the nest; another was perched on a window ledge well above the nest. With heavy rains last night, this morning, and again this afternoon, though, it…
Fledging update: Full house at the hawk nest
After spending most of the morning on a bridge over the canal, yesterday’s fledgling decided to spend the rest of a lazy Sunday afternoon and evening around the nesting platform with the other two siblings. The fact that the fledgling managed to fly back up to the nest means that it’s already beginning to master the art of gaining altitude…
First fledge at downtown Holyoke’s Red-tailed Hawk nest
After a rain-out Friday, one of the young hawks fledged around mid-morning today.
Cornell hawks: Explaining an early fledge
Out at the Red-tailed Hawk nest the Cornell Lab of Ornithology documents with live video, viewers got a look at a harrowing accidental fledge by one of the three nestlings.
Rainy Friday at downtown Holyoke’s hawk nest
A stop by the Red-tailed Hawk nest Friday morning before work revealed that the adventurous little hawk who’d wandered to the nest platform’s lower level on Thursday had found its way back to the nest. Would the rest of the day bring our first fledge?
Where the Yellow Warblers live
I wrote the other day that when I went out to photograph Yellow Warblers in Holyoke, I had no trouble finding a number of them.
A fresh start for The Birds Downtown
When I started The Birds Downtown as a blog in the fall of 2011, it was an experiment, and a challenge to myself. Could I really find enough birds in a post-industrial New England landscape to keep posting month after month? The sheer variation in birds I’ve found in Holyoke’s urban and industrial core has been enough affirmation to keep…