Person Feeds Mother Hawk Making Nest in Window Garden Box.

[Bayard]

[secondwind]

1. Oh what a tender scene!!! beautiful bird!!!

[tblue37]

2. Awww. Room service! At the end there she's full & must figure out what to do with

the leftovers. (She doesn't even quite finish eating the second to last bit.)

[MissB]

3. Good service at the fly-up window

Very sweet. Shocked that she stayed put.

[Grins]

4. Didn't take long to figure out that green thing had food! NM

[3catwoman3]

5. Momma Hawk is adapting very quickly to the no-contact...

...snack delivery.

That would be so much fun.

Last year, a mother duck made a nest in some mint we have behind our garage. Eventually, there were 9 eggs, and we were so excited. Sadly, predators picked off 3 eggs one by one, and then the remaining 6 all at once. I felt awful about this.

[flamin lib]

6. You really shouldn't do this, but if ya' do at least have the good sense

to turn the cell phone on it's side and video in landscape mode!!!

[Duppers]

12. Shouldn't take pictures?

I'm afraid I don't understand.

[flamin lib]

13. should have put sarcasm thingie in there

Some would scold for feeding the bird, making it unafraid of humans, I took that and flipped it to video etiquette in that video is a horizontal medium. Or was until cell phones became video camera . . .

[Duppers]

14. Yep. Sorry I forgot he was feeding her.

I'm guilty of feeding wildlife when I shouldn't too.

[flamin lib]

15. There is a raptor rehab facility here in N Texas. It's a well kept secret so that the public

doesn't find it. I interviewed the fellow who ran it in hopes of doing a photo essay. He had some stock pictures of how the birds are treated and housed during rehab. The care givers are all hooded, gloved in large floppy gloves and the birds never actually see a human during their stay. In the case of baby birds the feeder wears a glove made up to look like an adult bird's head and they are fed through a small opening in their nest box. I never got to see the place because when I asked to photograph it for my essay the interview abruptly ended.

However, in the case here the bird is a healthy adult fully integrated into nature and inserting itself into a human's domain so no harm, no foul. I seriously doubt this falcon will seek out human companionship or forget how to feed itself.

[nykym]

7. My Birder wife says

you have a Peregrine Falcon.
Very cool - habitat is everywhere.

[mitch96]

8. I think there was a NOVA program about falcons in the citys and how they are thriving

It was pretty neat and had a segment about how the falcons are nesting in buildings on the upper floors. No predators near buy I guess...
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[keithbvadu2]

9. Then she looks in the window for more. Really cute.

Then she looks in the window for more. Really cute.

[3catwoman3]

10. Such a beautiful face.

Her eye markings are so distinct it rather looks as if she is using eyeliner.

[Bayard]

11. I hope he posts some more video

When the babies hatch.