by Tig Tillinghast | Aug 4, 2016 | Nature
With raptors, unlike some birds, their risk factors for death don’t diminish much once they leave the nest. The danger really just starts. They must learn to hunt and navigate any number of hazards. One of my neighbors, a male broad winged hawk of about 7 weeks...
by Tig Tillinghast | Jul 27, 2016 | Nature
This past winter, we spent some weeks trying to pin down the location of a bobcat den in our back forest. It was an exhilarating chase that I likened to a game of Battleship, where we would place game cameras in the forest at some locations based on educated guesses,...
by Tig Tillinghast | Jul 19, 2016 | Nature
In a lake near Forest Metrix’s offices, a pair of loons started nesting for the first time in a number of years. They didn’t pick a particularly good location, it seems, putting their eggs a couple inches above a mud bar formed at the mouth of a creek....
by Tig Tillinghast | Jun 26, 2016 | Nature
The last image I have of the smallest chick is from Tuesday the 21rst a bit after 2 p.m. It wasn’t doing well, sleeping much, not appearing terribly successful in the food scrums, and suffering from some sort of wound on the back of the neck. For the previous week or...
by Tig Tillinghast | Jun 20, 2016 | Nature
To see earlier posts on the Cooper’s hawk project, see these links: Update 1 Update 2 This third update recounts events starting on June 18, 2016. June 18: The larger of the young are just at that tween stage, where they are about to look more like hawks than...
by Tig Tillinghast | Jun 17, 2016 | Nature, Uncategorized
June 12 I had been starting to despare that we’d only have three chicks this year. Which is a perfectly normal of chicks for a Cooper’s nest, if a bit on the low side. But more would make this year’s observations more analogous to last year’s data, when we saw five...
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