Goshawk Nest in Riga 2022

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09:50 I would say H98 is coming back to the nest.
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He pokes around in the nest a bit and then starts flapping and jumping happily... practice.
He calls like a cross between a buzzard and a kitten. :laugh:
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A short time later, H97 flutters onto the side branch.
Her brother leaves the nest, H97 investigates the nest for things of interest.
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She lies down, rests...
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10:23 something draws attention. H97 leaps out of the nest.


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There was another visit in the afternoon.
Unfortunately, my recording failed. I was able to salvage a few leftovers.
I'm sorry. I still have many things at the same time...I still want to know the documentation somehow complete even if it's not perfect.

15:27 A male hawklet returns to the nest. Looks like H99?
More of a flying visit...let's see if there's anything here.
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Sits in the rain and holds up well... :innocent:
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18:10 Heavy rain dominates Riga.
H21 brings a fully plucked forage carcass to the nest. She stands and waits...listens.
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Decides to deliver the food to her dwarves, who can already be heard in the undergrowth.
Enthusiasm in all tones... :D
If I'm right, at least two Hawklets.



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July 7th

And we are in today...

What was going on yesterday is less today.
06:51 We hear the breaking and H44 stumbles into the nest with a branching branch. ...'outside' there is nagging in chorus.
Approximately two Mini-H's.
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08:47 H44 again - this time he's bringing food.
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H44 waits, checks the position of its Hawklets and returns to the site with the food for handover.
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asteria wrote: July 6th, 2022, 8:10 am Next year young goshawks who have almost no enemies(WTE? Golden eagles? Eagle owls?) grow up and their number increases. It's a disaster for ospreys. Sad but predictable.

I think it's a subjective feeling.
And I think we anchor more negative events in memory than the positive ones...or what we want to see.
Absolutely, we are witnessing some Goshawk chick snatching via the live cams documented here.
But we also experience, no less, failures in the breeding season in the nests caused by other factors.

The statement that Goshawk are increasing in number is not proven.
Territorially it will be such that a species is well established. While elsewhere it is rare ... .

Hawklet/chicks were also carried into nests this season. It's not like the Goshawk has a free pass on its pedigree everywhere.

I would be very careful with these statements!!!!

Not least because the natural mortality rate of young Goshawks is very high (even though it seems here in the documented ones that every egg is a lifetime hit - that's absolutely not the case!) and one important enemy was not listed - the human.

Dear asteria, I really appreciate your impulsiveness. You know that. :innocent:
But please don't underestimate the effectiveness of such statements.
Anyone who does not deal with the topic, only reads superficially will draw a distorted wrong conclusion.
It leads to Goshawk being unfairly discredited - and blindly hunted down brutally - as in this case.
And there are far too many maimed, mercilessly executed Goshawk. :unsure:

Thanks...if you're reading this.


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Hello Polly and everyone. :wave:

Thanks Polly for your reports, mixing photos, videos and literature with a touch of humor. :2thumbsup:

This nest still has a lot of activity in the morning, the days that I have tracked in the afternoon I have not been able to see activity in it, only the sounds of the young. Although I admit that I am not exhaustive, I advance little by little and listen, sometimes in the jumps something is lost because in repetitions I realize that sightings can happen to me.
That is why it is worthwhile that at this time you put us in activity every day and it is being seen that the flying chickens are quite impulsive although there have been no problems between them.

This year there has been luck in the chamber nests, all the eggs have hatched and the chicks are flying.
In the field I seldom see four chicks in the nests, the most normal are two or three and quite often chicks are seen at the foot of the nest, dead.

The goshawks usually catch the most abundant prey in their hunting territories and the weakest, as well as the easiest.
All species do, but the goshawk is designed with great hunting capabilities. We only see the successes but it also fails and we must recognize that in urban environments it has more availability of prey and it colonizes them little by little.

You can not ask a wolf , a goshawk , an eagle owl ... to be kind to their prey . The sooner you kill them, the less suffering and risk to themselves.

The law of nature is not imposed but is highly modulated by human activities.

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July 8th

Hello Emiliano :hi:
In fact, the hours are quieter in the second half of the day.

Yesterday there was another late night owl:
22:01 - 03 A hawklet flapped onto the side branch and sat there...just like that.
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The day today began with the calls of a hawklet.
04:03/04 begging calls that turn into ki ki ki
'12 ki ki ki
'16 again, but sounds more excited now, more urgent

'22 the calls are at a greater distance now

Otherwise there was nothing! :shock:
I have to get used to this time without the nagging of the bundles of joy.

It seems the entire family was off precinct except for the one hawklet.

But then ...
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08:25 H44 brings breakfast in bed. These Hawklets are spoiled.
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The first follows immediately - straight into the nest. H44 rushes out because Hawklet #2 comes screeching too. But don't get into the nest.
The lining is defended and encased.
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The hawklet doesn't really eat, or not much.
It looks more like prey prey...and sometimes a cat playing with a mouse.
The hawklet kills the rodent again.
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H00 looks very similar to its sister H97 from the back. Also slight tendency towards V markings in the tail feathers.
Edit: Sighting the rings of the first hawklet made 00 appear. However, it appears to have been H97.
It's H97 (?)
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08:36 The brother comes into the nest and initially remains sitting on the edge of the nest.
His sibling wraps up the food and seems unwilling to share it.
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But then it lets go of the rodent, flutters onto the side branch and its brother enters the nest.
The rat tail is the first thing he finds. I think he swallows it too.
Then he finds what he is looking for - only the head of the rodent is missing. Well, and the tail... 8-)
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The siblings lie side by side...it is plucked at each other and togetherness is shown with beaks.
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09:04 Hawklet #3 is heard.
'12 is now entering the nest.
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Almost like in the old days, not so long ago, the siblings lie together in the nest like chicks. :innocent:
Almost ... because unfortunately there is no sign of Mini #4. It had been a long time since four voices had been heard. :rolleyes:
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A nest full of tired, stressed out teenagers...yes, learning is exhausting. :2thumbsup:
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10:02 A hawklet now jumps onto the side branch and out down. The other two continue to doze.
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10:09 False start :laugh:
The siblings get up - lie down again.

'12 but now
Both hawklets push themselves out of the nest.
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10:18 H44 again with a bigger black bird.
He seems hectic as he plucks at the bird.
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'19 He flies out with the food - and comes back.
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H44 seems undecided. Is it possible that he really wants to pass the food in the nest? He waits...and sure enough the Hawklet siren starts to get louder.
Time for H44 to leave the nest. :mrgreen:
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H97 doesn't really settle down...
She plucks and screeches with the bird. Sometimes it seems like she's angry with the prey.
Is it possible that the instinct to kill doesn't need to be developed or trained until later?

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The girl throws the food and looks frustrated. ...and kills the bird again.
H97 leaves nest tree 10:43 from side branch.



H97 is a noble beauty like her mother... :innocent:
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22:37 by my watch

There were visits from H97 and later one of the brothers.
(Possibly even more)
I'm running the recorder right now and trying to catch up on Sunday.
I have a long time at work tomorrow. I'm too tired today...

It was a very fascinating day today as a guest in the kingdom of the H family....
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Hello Polly. all

Little bird hanging around the branches and in the nest (7:05:09) and (7:30:17).

Sound of chickens somewhat distant:
7:05 - 7:14 - 7:19 - 7:30

Now one of them is getting closer but he can't be seen (7:34:44)

A chicken enters the branch, the nest and lies down in it. Two others sound outside. (10:57:30)
H44 enters with prey (11:15:10), leaves it and goes through the branch.
The chicken continues with its screams, it does not use it to ask for food, it is also in contact with his brothers or parents.
He plucks and eats little (11:31), hides in the trunk and comes out through the left branch (11:33:42).

H44 enters again with a small prey (13:47:50), the chickens screech outside, he plucks the previous piece and also some of the one he just brought.
(13:55:10) H44 comes out with the prey and takes it to the chickens judging by the noise and the more excited sounds of the chickens.

The entrances and exits of the nest are part of the teaching, sometimes I will show them to them and then leave them back in the nest for them to catch.

The instinct to grab , pull and eat the prey is already seen when they are smaller chickens , we can not appreciate the hunt itself , possibly it releases wounded prey for them to capture in the air .

Again a little bird walks around the nest (14:31-33).

(14:35:24 to 15:00:52) A chick enters the nest, lays down to rest and when his siblings stir up the outside with their shrieks it leaves.
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