LDF Goshawks 2016

Thanks to Patti for finding this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzioHRLRBmw

Dad Goshawk is not only tiny; he is young! Here he is, boldly passing his catch of the morning to Mrs. Goss, while a hawklet looks on. You can see Mr. Goss still has his juvenile plumage, so he is almost surely in his second year -- a teenage dad, as Hiker puts it.

There is still only one hatchling, the first having hatched on 5/10, I believe? Looks like two pips going on (hopefully).

Mrs. Goss called for takeout food, and Mr. Goss was quick with the delivery. Today there are two little hawks in the nest and a pip in one of the two remaining eggs.

My, how the goshawklets have grown. Today they were banded, or is it "ringed?"

Couple of years ago, when we watch the CoHa nest in Saskatchewan, they banded them.... just like this. Rings on, quick measurement, out of there, so fast. One cooplet behaved like this little goslet - full defensive posturing; one dropped to the bottom of the nest & pretended to be dead, like an Osprey chick. It is interesting to watch how different they are in personality!

Lone surviving goshawklet C34 shows off her plumage and her bling.

Mom Goss (Margo) still wants to brood her chick, but chick sez "Mom, I'm too big." Last week, much to my surprise, Mom removed the body of her little boy chick from the nest, after days of brooding him and covering him with fresh leafy boughs. Why she did not offer it as a meal to its sibling, as accipiters normally do, I have no idea. Perhaps she instinctively knew the chick's body remained a source of a problem and should not be consumed?