The Grant's Tomb Fledglings: Beetles and Pancaking

Part 3 of The Grant's Tomb Fledglings videos features the fearless trio eating red beetles, running around on the ground, perching on park benches, pancaking (lying flat) on a ledge over a pedestrian tunnel, and screaming for food. Just normal behavior for the red-tailed fledglings on June 25 and 26.

Breakfast of champions! A fledgling eats a beetle near Claremont Playground.

The Chasing the Hawks video was filmed on June 25 and 26. 

These photos were taken on June 25 and 26. More can be seen on the Grant's Tomb Red-Tailed Hawks page.

The Grant's Tomb Fledglings, Continued

Part 2 of The Grant's Tomb Fledglings features some playground action, some rain and two siblings waiting for food in a tree!

A Grant's Tomb fledgling at the Claremont Playground, June 23, 2017.

Part 2 was filmed on June 23 and 24, at the Claremont Playground, which is north of monument. It is a fun place to play for kids and baby hawks!

I loved when the young hawk perched under the hawk weather vane on top of the restroom building.

More playground photos from June 23. The youngster didn't seem all that happy when it started to rain, although the kid had played earlier in the sprinklers. The last photo in this group was taken June 24.

These two siblings were waiting for a food delivery on June 24.

You know these are urban hawks when they sit on park benches. These shots are from June 24.

Stay tuned for Part 3! These young birds delight me every day!

Chasing the Grant's Tomb Fledglings

The Grant's Tomb nest this year hatched three young red-tailed hawks, which have fledged and are delighting everyone in the neighborhood. I've been filming them as they go from crying on the back of the Grant's Tomb monument to hunting bugs at the Claremont Playground to the north. More photos and video will follow!

One of the three Grant's Tomb fledglings, June 21, 2017.

The Chasing the Hawks videos are being doing in parts. I just posted Part 1 of The Grant's Tomb Fledglings, which covers June 13, 16 and 21.

The first seven photos below were taken June 13. The fifth shows a parent (I think Mom) bringing in a pigeon, which she then took to the ledge of the monument, where the kids ate one after the other. The eighth photo was taken June 16, and shows a balcony with a potted red-tailed fledgling.

These photos were taken June 21. Mom brought a pigeon to a tree. One of the kids started eating it there, while another watched and cried. The fledgling with the food carried it to the ground, where the meal was devoured. Sharing is not considered a hawk attribute.