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They returned the third nestling to the nest.
The most incredible photo is here:
http://www2.fi.edu/images/hawkjun82.jpg
...showing the wildlife rehab guy, holding her, just inside the window before placing her back on the ledge (where she hopped back over to the nest, where I've been watching her off and on last evening and throughout the morning, as always.)
I love that photo, because it shows the shit-spattered window I'm so used to seeing, it shows the camera up above the ledge, through which I've been watching this whole drama, and most of all, it shows the BIRD. What an amazing creature, close up! Her silvery eye, her enormous size, seen now with added human for scale, her amazing claws...and all this power and size, from a creature still too young to fly properly!
I'm glad to have her back. I bought a betta fish for my desk, so that even when the hawks were gone, I could have a creature to keep an eye on while I work...but another week or two of hawk-watching via webcam is just fine with me.
ETA: Aww, one of the siblings came by with a rodent, to share with the nest-bound youngster. Hawks are the greatest; looking after each other like that.
The most incredible photo is here:
http://www2.fi.edu/images/hawkjun82.jpg
...showing the wildlife rehab guy, holding her, just inside the window before placing her back on the ledge (where she hopped back over to the nest, where I've been watching her off and on last evening and throughout the morning, as always.)
I love that photo, because it shows the shit-spattered window I'm so used to seeing, it shows the camera up above the ledge, through which I've been watching this whole drama, and most of all, it shows the BIRD. What an amazing creature, close up! Her silvery eye, her enormous size, seen now with added human for scale, her amazing claws...and all this power and size, from a creature still too young to fly properly!
I'm glad to have her back. I bought a betta fish for my desk, so that even when the hawks were gone, I could have a creature to keep an eye on while I work...but another week or two of hawk-watching via webcam is just fine with me.
ETA: Aww, one of the siblings came by with a rodent, to share with the nest-bound youngster. Hawks are the greatest; looking after each other like that.
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You know, while bettas can survive living in tiny bowls, they actually like to have room to swim around (and look very pretty doing so). Did you get it a biggish bowl?
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(He speaks French, mon poisson. He is also an acrobat.)
I tried to take pictures a few days ago with my macro lens, inspired by the beautiful ones
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Now he says: "I am NOT bleu. I am full uff ze rrred, and ze violet, and ze silver! Let me show you my fearsome couleurs! See? I vill svim sideways, just so zat you can see me!!!"
And then he does.
I have to do a post about him, soon. Henri is worth an lj post all his own.
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