Our five-year search for a NORTHERN GOSHAWK nest came to a successful
conclusion today! I know it has been five years since we began the search
because we came onto the birding scene in central Oregon just after the
loss of the famous goshawk nest at Calliope Crossing, near Sisters Oregon
in 2011. This is a link to a news story about the loss of the nest that is
appropriately titled Loving Wildlife to Death, By Jim Anderson, a long-time
naturalist from the area.
<http://www.nuggetnews.com/main.asp?SectionID=10&SubSectionID=10&ArticleID=18930>
The first few years I searched tirelessly - then reality set in and I
figured I should be happy with periodic distant views of the bird flying by
one hawk watch station or another. But on a hike today, Jill queued me
into very faint screams of juveniles, and after a cross-country scramble
over steep terrain, we were rewarded with a great view of two juveniles.
One looking as if it had just fledged.
http://www.jack-n-jill.net/blog/2016/7/two-fledgling-northern-goshawks---deschutes-county
Time to buy a lottery ticket!
Jack Williamson
West Linn, Oregon
