Bald Eagle family accidentally adopts Red-Tailed Hawk baby.

Damn bird is a menace to avian familyhood!

So, when the young hawk’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love - is it going to look for another hawk, or did he imprint on eagles? There’s going to be a real ‘small man’ complex (assuming it’s male) going on there . . .

Second link isn’t working for me.

For some reason this reminded me of an old Sniffles cartoon, wherein he adopts a baby hawk only to find out that it’s primarily a mouse eater.

I thought of Foghorn Leghorn setting the baby hawk onto the farm dog.

Thank you very much for sharing. I really enjoy stories that show nature behaving contrary to our expectations.

Ha… I’m still chuckling. :slight_smile:

Well he’s now “branching” so he can safely get out of the way of his sibling’s enormous wings!

http://www.hancockwildlife.org/forum/media/vP9jxXNyGA0619200650.jpg

Lots of fantastic new pictures here:

http://www.hancockwildlife.org/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=908803&mode=&show=8&page=23

More pictures on the next page as well!