Thanks to Pop for finding this pair of red-tails nesting in San Diego County.

http://hdontap.com/index.php/video/stream/red-tail-hawk-cam

The cam is provided by HDonTap, and promises to be another HD cam of very good quality. The hawks are incubating two eggs, but we have not discovered the date they were laid. Here is a photo of the pair and a photo of an adult bringing a large piece of bark for lining the nest. It is usually the female who brings in the bark.

Sweet, R4. I was hoping to get a view of both together. They are a handsome pair. It is going to be great getting to know them.

I asked HDOnTap when the eggs were laid, and here is their reply:

"....we did not have an internet connection until February 20, 2015. We believe they were laid about a week and half before that. Hope this helps!"

So I'm going to start watching for a hatch around March 10th. Oboyoboyoboy.

We thought we saw a pip yesterday but we're not sure. Is it a pip or some kind of yuck stuck on the egg?

Finally! I got to see both hawks! The eggs still look intact this afternoon.

They switch places so fast it's just a blur! Here's a couple of snips of both parents tails. 1 has a white feather showing but I don't know which parent. LOL!

Parent 1 white feather 3-13-15.PNG - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte) parent 2 3-13-15.PNG - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte)

Something held Mom's full attention today. She swiveled her head around, up and down, chirping all the while. Perhaps it was a hummingbird? I have seen one on two different occasions, hovering long enough for me to identify but not long enough to get a screen capture.

We think something is going on in the RT nest. Maybe it's time for the eggs to hatch! Mom is restless and keeps standing up and looking down at the eggs. I thought I heard chirping but then again I could have imagined it.

We have a hatch! An active, wobbly little hawklet made its appearance early this morning. Mom pulled the eggshell out of the nest and has been nibbling on it for awhile. Here is a peek at the tiny one and the remaining egg - hopefully to be its sibling very soon.

Even though there is a lot of bobbling going on, this baby is very strong. When Mom left for a fly-about, the chick moved about, checking out its surroundings. I watched, amazed, as the tiny chick streamed out its first-ever PS.

This little thing is strong and alert as it can be! Here's a feeding I got to see this afternoon.

There are two red-tail hatchlings in the nest this morning. Chick #2 hatched at around 7:15 a.m. nest time. Chick #1 already tried to take a bite out of him.

I opened this site up just in time to see some of the hatching this morning. SOoooooo Cute!

Mom feeds her two chicks, only one and two days old. Some of the posters at the facebook site are calling them Weeble and Wobble.

Last night Mom covered the chicks with a blanket of soft, fuzzy red bark, which you can still see beside them. A fragment of eggshell from the second hatching remains on the nest, lying in the foreground. The feeding appeared to consist of remnants of the rabbit Dad brought in yesterday, slam-dunking it directly into the nest bowl.

Today, the chicks ate until they collapsed together in "food coma." After naptime began, Mom seemed intent on doing some housekeeping. From the nest bowl, she pulled out the rabbit pelt, a tennis-ball-sized ball of whitish material, and toyed with it as though trying to decide how to get rid of it. She dispensed with it with raptor-like expediency; she swallowed it in its entirety.

Little Hawk Eyes Tracking Something

Is that a "hawk halo" I see on Mom this morning? Many of us expected Mom to satisfy our human parenting standards by tending the nest yesterday. She had other plans, and was absent from the nest for most of the day. It's clear she is not a helicopter mom.

The way the sun plays tricks on the cam in the morning brings on a feeling of nostalgia. Does anyone else remember watching similar lights?