Red-tailed Hawk feeding chicks in the nest - New Jersey

Adult Red-tailed Hawk feeding its young:

Did you notice how at the end of this short clip, adult bird checks if chick is still hungry? It pretends that it is giving him food and if he reacts by opening its beak, he will be fed. Pretty neat, isn’t it?

You can find the latest updates from this location, here: https://www.greggard.com/location-updates/red-tailed-hawk-nest-nj-2019

Notice the food stash at the from the nest 🙈 These young hawks are often fed with a caught nearby rats, squirrels, chipmunks and even birds.

This video was recorded at the local Red-tailed Hawk nest in Passaic County, NJ.

To help others with improving their photography at this nest, I created a Location Guide that can be purchased here: https://www.greggard.com/location-guides/red-tailed-hawk-nest-nj-photography-ebook

If you are interested in viewing the progress of this nest, you can view my videos, from the previous season, showing the chicks from the week they were born to the week they left the nest:

- week 1 - youtu.be/AgnNa-FGtcI

- week 2 - youtu.be/dy8npJHJPqg

- week 3 - youtu.be/lSRS13aHjCo

- week 4 - youtu.be/vJuSCbXfcoA

- week 5 - youtu.be/fNHNW2DUYJo

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