A check of the nest at High and Dwight streets this evening found that my earlier post was off-base — the young hawk was on the nest, and proceeded to hop up a flight of the fire escape before leaping up to perch on a railing. Both adults made visits to the nest, with one dropping off what appeared to…
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Fledging and Holyoke’s Red-tailed Hawks: Blink, and you miss it
[portfolio_slideshow id=1505] I checked the Red-tailed Hawk nest at the corner of High and Dwight streets Friday morning to find this year’s brood-of-one milling about on the fire escape. For most of the spring, the young bird had simply been out of sight, and I’d only caught glimpses of it. Expecting another week or so of jump-flapping and other pre-fledging…