Red Tailed Hawk Renest

Yeah, can you go closer to it? I won't be able to have such a good view of it from in there. I want to look at this structure of the tree. I may have to climb that sycamore next to it. Really, they don't need our help. I mean, they do really well. These babies are all within a couple weeks of flooding. Wow. So, they're... The red-tailed hawk that we are re-nesting today came from a nest in Columbus, Ohio, after its nest was destroyed in a windstorm. Okay, I see the nest over there. This young hawk and its siblings were taken to Glen Helen Raptor Center for rehabilitation, and they are just a couple of weeks from fledging. Now, to throw my hook into the spindly, leaning tree that the nest is in so I can get over there. That should do it. Sycamore trees like these produce a very fine powder under their leaves in early summer, and it's quite irritating to the respiratory system. I'd like to extend some gratitude to the Dayton Boat Club for ferrying us across the river. I chose this tree-to-tree traverse to get to this nest for a couple of reasons. The first was to eliminate the risk of hitting the nest with my throw weight while setting my line into the tree, and the second is there aren't many options up here in this skinny silver maple, and I felt much more comfortable climbing into the sycamore before coming over here. These two babies are about to meet their step-sibling. The parents of this nest will adopt this young hawk as their own and teach it the ways of the world. Okay, I'm gonna get out of here.