The first Red-tailed Hawk egg hatch happened around 8:30AM today.
I first saw the hatchling starting to emerge around 8:13AM.
This footage is of the recording I made of the hatching while watching the live nest cam.
In this video you first see the mother Sadie tend to the hatchling and then the father Bobby come visit the nest and have a look at the baby.
If all goes well the other eggs should hatch over the next week.
Wonderful news! So this is year eight for Bobbie and his three (sequential) females?
Hi! This is the 9th year of hatchlings (their first nest was in 2011).
Gréât to see this footage from Paris, France. A bit of joy in these tumultuous times !
Congratulations to Bobby and Sadie…and all her people Family.
Another exciting year.
As I remember, wasn’t the first egg hatched on Easter, last year?
hanksRoger_Paw
Hi, no, Easter was April 1st last year and the first egg hatched on April 30th of last year.
It was the year Easter was on April 12.
The joy of new life never ceases to amaze! Great footage of the moment. Never saw either parent eat what was left of egg yolk before; but logical that its prime nourishment for them, especially Sadie. Will she also eat the egg shell for calcium replacement? And will someone please remove that icky piece of cardboard!?
Thanks – always – for superb insights, camera work and devotion to our very own RTHs. Susan
She has eaten parts of the egg shells in past years and may this time as well. Yes, all is going so well so far!