10 April 2026
Last year in early April Dana Nesiti was filming great-horned owl siblings in Schenley Park but this year their nest is gone and the owls have relocated, we don’t know where. Instead Dana has found a red-tailed hawk nest where the pair is incubating eggs.
Red-tailed hawks are the most common hawk in southwestern Pennsylvania with at least three territories in Schenley Park, one of which is Dana’s favorite pair. On 3 April he visited them to see how their nesting is progressing.
Last Friday was warm and very windy and it roared while Dana filmed the male on the nest.
The music he selected for Five Minutes in the Wind is calming and briefly dramatic. Enjoy.
Saw them rearranging sticks on 4/5
Thanks Kate. We found the GHO pair back in late January up in the nest on Prospect. We think it was the same pair from Panther Hollow. The female was on the nest looking like she was incubating and we could find the male in the patch of woods. Then first week of Feb. they were gone. We saw a Red-tailed Hawk in that nest at the end of Feb. but haven’t seen any there lately.
Hopin to see some nestlings here in a couple weeks.
Amazing amount of drama over at Prospect!