Here are three baby Cooper's Hawk chicks in their nest at Dallas City Park on June 26th. Originally, we found this nest site back on March 27th, after a report from a couple of other birders. We saw both a male and a female, and continued to watch them for a number of weeks as they built their nest. We brought the Village Birders here as a part of the Bus Birding Trips on April 6th and 8th. We continued to keep watch on the nest site through the rest of April, all of May and up to this point at the end of June. Many times, we could not see any sign of life at the nest, and several times I became 100% convinced that the nest had failed, probably from harassment of the Crows. You can imagine our excitement on the 26th of June when we discovered these three fuzzy juveniles. It's going to be fun to watch over the next month as they grow, add their feathers, and be able to leave the nest.
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