Swainson's Hawk Watch: Hawks Seen in Nest and Pine Tree

Welcome to the Swainson's Hawk Watch

In April of 2010, a pair of wild Swainson's Hawks decided to nest in our neighborhood in Boise, Idaho. This "Hawk Watch" will attempt to record words and photographs describing the Hawks behaviors, including the hatching & fledgling of chicks over the spring and summer. Many others who live in the neighborhood also watched the daily activities of the hawks and used this blog to keep up on my own observations and photographs.

Note! May 6, 2011 Two Red-Tailed Hawks have settled on the old nest and appear to be laying on eggs now. See blog posts below.

Note! On March 12, 2011 two neighbors reported seeing a single hawk flying around and landing on the nest. Hopefully they will nest here again or nearby and we can continue the blog through 2011.

Note! Please Try to "Follow" the Blog and check in often. I am trying to update this site and the photo album at least once or twice a week. This page scrolls down to the blog entries below this introduction. The first blog entry you will see is the latest one. Scrolling the page down will reveal earlier posts in descending chronological order. And/or you can use the Blog Archive on the right side of the screen to see entries for May, through October 2010 and newer ones for 2011.

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Note ! I am posting "all" of the hawk images to an album in my Picasa Web account. Below is the web URL for that album. You can click on that hot link and/or also click on the Hawk lifting off branch photo to go to that album. As of October 3, there are 600 individual images in the album.

http://picasaweb.google.com/gogrimm/SwainsonSHawksNesting#

Note! When looking at a single photo in the album use the "full screen" icon for a larger, more impressive size!

Friday, August 6, 2010

Hawks Seen in Nest and Pine Tree

When I went past the hawk nest this morning a neighbor who lives nearby said he had seen one hawk in the nest and another in the pine tree. The one in the nest flew to the pine tree and he seemed to get in sort of a fight or scramble, then they both flew off. He was not sure if these were both young hawks or if a parent hawk was also involved. I returned to my home and about noon we could hear hawks making noise. I rode my bike to the field a couple of blocks away and could see nothing and then back to the nest area. One young hawk was in the nest making quite a bit of noise and looking around. Finally it took off and flew toward the field. I rode over and saw one of the young hawks in a tree across the street from the field. It did not stay long and took off again across the field and I lost sight of it.