I photographed the nest a week ago, on the 26th of April. There were two chicks and they looked pretty freshly hatched. One was being fed by a parent, but I never saw the other one move. I've put up two pics (not very good and heavily cropped to show detail) on the CBC web site in my photo album at: http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/gallery
A couple days ago I went back and didn't get a glimpse of a chick, but did see a nice cache near the sitting parent of a chipmunk and starling... Melissa Melissa Groo Wildlife Photography http://melissagroo.com > Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Ave Redtail Chick > From: suan.y...@gmail.com > Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 21:49:31 -0400 > To: CAYUGABIRDS-L@cornell.edu > > At the Stewart Avenue bridge over Fall Creek the red-tailed hawk was feeding > a lone chick this evening. Initially there looked to be two furry blobs, but > one of them turned out to be a squirrel. A passerby who checks out the nest > when he walks by every day said this was the first time he'd seen the mother > stand up to reveal a chick. > > For the photographer, the shadow of the bridge falls upon the nest around > 6pm: before that you get a late afternoon sun; after you get a nice even > shadow. > > The annoying fence remains. > > Suan > _____________________ > http://suan-yong.com > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
