Eastern Chanting Goshawk Nest
Category: Birds | Date: Apr 30 2008 | By: tumaren
Kichine, one of our rangers was scouting today and came upon an Eastern Chanting Goshawk’s nest. ECGs, as we call them around here are our most common raptor , principally preying on other birds and reptiles. Our friends at Ol Malo, a beautiful lodge north of here had a friendly agama lizard named Stubby that would feed from the hand and had been around the lodge for quite some time when during breakfast there was a flash before the window. To everyones horor stubby was taken away in the clutches of an ECG.
Here is the one young in the nest:
And Here is one of the parents:
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10 Responses to “Eastern Chanting Goshawk Nest”
Wim, on 01 May 2008
Alas! Poor Stubby…
fed from fingers,
got too chubby.
Couldn’t run quick,
got quite airsick,
now he feeds chick,
where it’s shrubby.
It’s really not the place to be if you’re a reptile is it? What with Hyaenas eating the tortoises and now this.
James, on 01 May 2008
i really appreciate these posts.
Sherri S., on 01 May 2008
First, “Alas, poor Yorick” now “Alas, poor Stubby.” A fun, fitting tribute, Wim!
Theresa Siskind St Petersburg FL, on 01 May 2008
Oh what a beautiful chick. What is their wing span when fully grown?
James, on 02 May 2008
they must be about 2.5 feet i would estimate. what is the wingspan of a cooper’s hawk? they are likely about the same size in the wing.
Markus, on 02 May 2008
JC,
When are you going to post some video here? I’d like to request some bat-eared fox footage with narration if possible.
James, on 03 May 2008
ladies and gentlemen,
Introdicing mark johnson the narrator of my first natural history film and my neighbor through the esterbrook woods growing up. I did not win any awards for my film or Mark’s stellar performance but i did get to torture my neighbor for a while which was satisfying in its own right.
I’ll work on the video.
jc
Wim, on 04 May 2008
Hello Mark, you have a lot to answer for methinks.
Oh? We’re taking video requests? Fine…
I’ll have the Rock Hyrax Amateur Dramatic Society doing West Side Story. Don’t worry about the romantic lalala guff, I’ll make do with “America” and the dance-off at the gym.
OK?
James, on 04 May 2008
i suppose the ground squirrels could be another gang?
Wim, on 04 May 2008
An interesting creative choice James and, might I say, a brave one. You’ll have to raise that with the Hyraxes yourself (huge prima-donnas that they are), I’m not getting involved…
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