The MIT Red Tailed HawkCam is brought to you of course, by MIT. The last time their lives were shared with the rest of the Internet was back in 2004, when they were nested in a spot close enough for everyone on the web to take a peek via live 24/7 web cam.
Fast forward to the present time and they are back to give you another glimpse of their crazy little routine. The hawks appear to be in a nest pretty high off the ground, so we can only hope one of the chicks doesn’t accidentally fall out of the nest too early.
A reader of AnimalCameras.com, owner of DailyPuppy.com writes “I live near MIT and have actually had one of the hawks land on my deck rail.”
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Weren’t there 2 chicks this morning?
Yes, there should be two chicks there…I just saw them a few minutes ago
He must’ve been wandering the ledge. I saw him come back.
I am currently watching a Redtailed Hawk nest (from the ground) in the city of Toronto. This is the fourth year. There is one eyas that I know of, since Saturday. I am wondering how old the ones are at MIT as they are quite active. If anyone knows their age I would appreciate knowing - thanks
I just took a look in at the site and the chicks appear dead to my eyes. There’s also a red blot on them that could be blood. Does anyone have a comment?
Ralph, the Redtailed hawk camera I am looking at shows the babies very much alive. It shows as a live presentation. Sometimes the eyasses move off to the right of the camera view and are off camera and sometimes when resting they do appear VERY still. As far as I can tell they are alive and well and growing beautifully - the colour is becoming evident in their heads now and I think they should fledge soon-ish. They have periodically been doing their *wing exercises* where they flap madly but do NOT take off. Unfortunately (or fortunately I guess) I do not see a red blot on them. Might it have been sun shining on their coloured feathers? Although the feathers are not *red* they can be a coppery brown in some light. I am assuming you were looking at a daytime picture. At night there is an archived video of when the babies were two days old and they were quite still at that stage except when being fed. They were two little white fluffballs in those days.
Hope this helps.
After posting the above message I see that the camera angle has changed and now allows us to see more of the ledge and the eyasses when they move off the nest - thank you MIT.
I see no sign of the young hawks - have they simply moved out of sight on the ledge or have they fledged and disappeared from our view for a year?
Just as a reminder from yesterday’s comments . . .
the hawks have flown. They flew yesterday at about 5:30 eastern. Both flew and returned to the nest. I didn’t see them leave, but i saw them both return. Someone else above saw one of them leave again.
Hopefully, now that they’ve flown once we will see it more often.
Thanks for the update *admin*. Right now at time of writing I see one of the fledgelings is back on the nest. Just sitting !