Fall Raptors
In the Fall, pairs of raptors return to their nesting territory to prepare for baby season. I have a favorite pair of red-shouldered hawks that I've watched for 7 years. Each year they return to the same territory to mate & work on the same nest. This is one of the pair watching over the territory. This early in the season I cannot tell them apart unless they are side by side. She is slightly larger. Behavior is an easier way to tell them apart. During mating obviously but also it is the male who will bring gifts of food to the female during courting and while she is brooding. They both work on the nest & they both take turns brooding and tending to chicks.
Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus)
My photos can also be found at kapturedbykala.com
Fall Raptors
In the Fall, pairs of raptors return to their nesting territory to prepare for baby season. I have a favorite pair of red-shouldered hawks that I've watched for 7 years. Each year they return to the same territory to mate & work on the same nest. This is one of the pair watching over the territory. This early in the season I cannot tell them apart unless they are side by side. She is slightly larger. Behavior is an easier way to tell them apart. During mating obviously but also it is the male who will bring gifts of food to the female during courting and while she is brooding. They both work on the nest & they both take turns brooding and tending to chicks.
Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus)
My photos can also be found at kapturedbykala.com