Photographs and videos are copyrighted by Larry P. Ammann Equipment: Pentax K5, DA*300, 1.7AFA All images and videos have been cropped for composition and down-sized for web viewing. Return to Bird Galleries Return to first diary page Return to previous diary page Go to next diary page Diary of a Young Hawk Junior is growing each day and his parents continue to bring food. Now he is expected to take Mom's catch from her talons. After his meal, he exercises his wings, getting ready for that big day. He spends more time looking up, looking at those high branches where he knows he belongs. Now, all he can think about is getting up to those branches. Mom brings a field mouse for breakfast, but Junior isn't interested. [watch video here] He flaps and jumps around the nest, wanting to get to a higher branch. Mom brings the mouse back, but Junior doesn't take it, so she leaves again. [watch video here] Mom tries once more, to no avail. Junior knows he was supposed to do something with that mouse, so he pounces on a feather instead. [watch video here] That next branch is so close... [watch video here] Go to next diary page