Happy Holidays and have a safe and happy New Years.
January, is the traditional time of year when I usually start the search for Red Shouldered Hawks begins with time to search for nesting sites. It's a couple of months process with the male finding a tree and starts to hang out there. Toward the end of the second month, the female will begin to be seen hanging out near the site.
About the first of March, in the traditional places near lakes, the pair will be seen building the nest together and finally. if you listen closely, you can hear the female calling out to the male from the nest site. She is beginning the egg laying and the male will bring her food.
From that point on, it is a wait and see until the young hatch chicks begin to branch.
In the pre-covid days, I would check on as many as 8 pairs of hawks with two pairs of Bards Owls and one pair of Great Horned owls.
I have missed three years and now without a car, it calls for looking for pairs in different places where I can ride a bus or train or both and walk to the nesting trees. And, with the great weather coming these days before and the several days after New Years you can bet that I will be Birding once again.
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