Hawks & Squirrels

We just moved offices at work this week and I have a sweet corner cube at the corner of our building looking out over Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge at the place where the Stratton Student Center and the grand Rogers Building connect.

I have this great little "green area" outside my window that has a large tree with a pretty decent sized squirrel nest at the top. Behind me in front of Building 9, (to the right of the tree in this picture), is a dying pine tree with a bird's nest at the top. In this bird's nest, reside a mating pair of red-tailed hawks and their two recently-hatched chicks.

I've had the immense pleasure of watching these hawks fly in a cycle around campus. To the top of Building 7, to another tree across the street, and sometimes in the trees outside my window hopping after some of the rapidly-growing squirrels who were also born earlier this year. Truly a sight to behold - a gift of nature. MIT has started a "Hawk Cam" on Campus Cable and today, I finally brought in my own camera, soon to be producing pictures of this couple, their hatchlings as well as the squirrels hanging out around my window.

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