From the desk of Willie Delwiche.
You guys need to come see this…
That’s what an excited neighbor told us after randomly knocking on our front door earlier this week.
We followed her out to our yard by the sidewalk to find a trio of scientists readying to catch and study a pair of Cooper’s Hawks that have been nesting in a tree across the street. They constructed a trap with a net stretched between a couple of poles and a distress call playing over a loudspeaker.
First, the female swooped in, followed by the male. The hawks were quickly entangled in the net and the scientists began to band and measure them.