Note! The photos below were taken about April 22.
The Hawks apparently took over one of two magpie nests in the tree. For weeks the magpies tried to harrass the hawks, but now they seem to have given up. One day I had a video camera with a zoom lens and I could see the magpies grabbing and pulling the hawk's wing feathers. When the hawk moved the magpie would fly around and get another wing feather and pull. It did not look like the hawk had a very good chance of catching the magpie and the magpie knew it. (As time permits I will try to upload some of the video sequences.)
To see the hawk's eye glint click on the image above to blow it up larger
More Hawk/Magpie photos have been uploaded to the Swainson's Hawk Watch web album.
Click here to go to the album which now has 25 images. (More coming soon)