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.

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

Hawk lifting off branch

Hawk lifting off branch

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Hawks Seen in Nest and Tree

A neighbor reported that there was a hawk in the nest and another in the Pine tree this morning.  We don't know if these were the young hawks or one young hawk and the adult female who often has perched in the pine tree when a young hawk was in the nest in the past,  No photos from this morning - Sorry!

I will try to go over to the nest this evening and will report back in this post if I see anything and add photos if I can.

Meanwhile I found some more good detailed information about Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) from the "California Partners in Flight Riparian Bird Conservation Plan."  Click on the link above to visit the web site.
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