Please be aware, this post has content of an injured Red-tailed Hawk and a Red-tailed Hawk with its prey.
My family and I have watched this family of Red-tailed Hawks since February of 2024. Please see the history on the Back of the Yards Red-tailed Hawks page. On this day we watched the three fledgelings in a tree with a rabbit their mother brought to them.
We met a contractor who kindly told us the story that one of the Red-tailed Hawk fledglings was electrocuted the day before, on Wednesday. This fledgeling miraculously survived! The contractor and his crew had been watching the parents and chicks around the nest for weeks. They were on a break and said one of the fledges landed on a transformer, bridging the wires! The arced electricity boomed like a gunshot through the industrial corridor, stunning the bird. It hung dangling from one foot for a while then gradually recovered (image from the man at the bottom of the page). It dropped to the ground, jumped up onto a fence, and eventually recuperated and flew away. He reported it opened its beak and smoke spilled out.
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| Three Red-tailed Hawk fledglings (two calling) |
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| Red-tailed Hawk mother |
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| Red-tailed Hawk fledgling flying |
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| Red-tailed Hawk fledgling |
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| Red-tailed Hawk fledgling with a small rabbit |
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| Red-tailed Hawk fledgling with a small rabbit |
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| Red-tailed Hawk fledgling with a small rabbit |
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| Two Red-tailed Hawk fledglings watching the third fledgling who has a small rabbit |
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| Red-tailed Hawk fledgling |
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| Red-tailed Hawk fledgling |
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| Two Red-tailed Hawk fledglings |
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| Red-tailed Hawk mother |
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| Two Red-tailed Hawk fledglings |
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| Two Red-tailed Hawk fledglings (one losing their balence) |
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| Red-tailed Hawk fledgling looking for the rabbit that one of them dropped |
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| Getting ready to fly... |
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| Flying... |
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| And landed. |
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| Red-tailed Hawk fledgling calling |
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| Red-tailed Hawk fledgling |
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| Red-tailed Hawk fledgling with the rabbit |
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| Red-tailed Hawk father |
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| Red-tailed Hawk father scratching his head |
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| Red-tailed Hawk father about to fly |
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| Red-tailed Hawk father |
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| Red-tailed Hawk fledgling after being electrified (Image texted to us and permission given by the contractor mentioned in the story above.) |
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