From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Jun 12 11:00:46 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5CHwMa7015026 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:58:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp7.Stanford.EDU (smtp7.stanford.edu [171.67.16.34]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5CHulfF014974 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:56:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by smtp7.Stanford.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h5CHuliu022041 for [[email protected]]; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:56:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [171.65.49.15] (welch1000-onco-imac2.Stanford.EDU [171.65.49.15]) by smtp7.Stanford.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5CHuj3K022034 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:56:45 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <[[email protected]]> References: <[[email protected]]> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:54:36 -0700 To: [[email protected]] From: Patty Ciesla <[[email protected]]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: [SBB] Red-tail Hawk nest contains chicks! X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2+ Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] At 11:49 AM -0700 6/9/03, I wrote: > >By the way, this is the third year this hawk nest has yielded no young. I blame a bad location in the euc - branches are too slender and too far from the main trunk. Every year we get big spring winds that thrash the tree and fling the nest around just when eggs or chicks would be present. I guess the hawks have bird brains too; they keep building the nest bigger... Anyway, the next day, I went out with binoculars looking for the oriole nest and noticed wings flapping in the hawk nest. Turns out there's a pair of young hawks, still slightly downy and disheveled about the neck and breast but with well-developed dark wings. Surprise! I've been hearing quiet calls from that vicinity, but I assumed it was the adults or jays mimicking them. I guess the increased nest size made it possible for the incubating adult and young chicks to remain hidden from below. Now they are big enough to stand on the edge of the nest. They seem really late this year compared to 1999 and 2000, but I'm pleased to learn the nest is has lived up to the hawk's hopes. Third time's a charm? The Great-horned Owls that used to nest in our yard didn't this year. Last year I thought they had found a new nest location in a cypress tree but I only heard a few super-quiet calls in the spring that might have been a chick; if it was a chick it didn't survive to the branching stage. I only occasionally hear the adult calls this year. Maybe they moved into Foothills Park and the hawks have benefited from that. Patty Ciesla Page Mill Road at Foothills Park Los Altos Hills _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]