It has been hot in the city, and even the hawks are looking for new ways to cool off.

I’d been observing one of the juvenile Red-tailed Hawks from this year’s brood in Heritage State Park the other morning when I lost track of it. Minutes later my girlfriend, walking to a yoga class at Open Square, called to tell me that two hawks were splashing around in a puddle in a parking lot outside the mill complex.

I arrived to find the two siblings taking a dip in a puddle deep enough for them to almost completely submerge themselves.

Below, more images from the swimming hole and the park.

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