How do hawks keep cool in the summer heat? One method is to perch with wings slightly opened, as this Tompkins Square fledgling demonstrates.
Another method is to create your own breeze, as the fledgling does as it dives off the tree and swoops to the ground.
Time for some frolicking in the cool grass.
This hawk found a leftover snack hidden in the bushes. Yummy!
Post-meal relaxing:
After resting a while, the fledgling found some leaves to tackle and fly around.
Then, a piece of wood.
Two of the fledglings perch in some brambles where they can see all the squirrels running around in the grass.
Time for some low swooping:
Playing with leaves and sticks, diving from branches, and swooping low across the ground is all practice for hunting and catching prey. So far, these young hawks have been acing all their lessons.
More to come.
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