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Hawk on Boston Common

David Geller filed this report on some excitement on the Common yesterday:

Landed right next to our Sunday morning football game at the softball field. Was swooping for a squirrel but missed him.

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Well, that'll be an end to the lost budgie over in Peters Park.

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cool photo!

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I was sitting on my back porch the other day and saw a hawk trying to dive for the numerous rats we have out back. Was funny, I've never seen a hawk so close to the city (and so close to people) before.

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There are quite a few hawks in the city, and have been for some time. I've seen an American kestrel on Comm. Ave. a block off of Mass. Ave., and I see red-tailed hawks in Allston from time to time. (Much more often I hear them without being able to spot them.) My dad once took a series of photos of a red-tailed hawk taking down a pigeon in the middle of Ashford Street.

I've also heard them near Brigham Circle, and staff at the MFA once told me that there was at least one hawk that hunted regularly in one of their courtyards.

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There's a red-tailed hawk that hangs around on one of the BIDMC East Campus buildings.

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Our Sunday morning fast-pitch team often sees red-tailed hawks on the light towers at Smith Field (adjacent to Harvard Stadium.)

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They like the large trees and slightly more hilly terrain.

The hawk in the article picture may be a young female Coopers or Sharp-shinned hawk.

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When I lived in Roslindale Square, my landlord cautioned me about putting my cat out on the second floor porch because of the local hawks in the Arboretum. I wasn't worried... I have $50 down on my cat in all situations. He was the black and white thug of Bexley Road yelling at folks walking by the house!
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I've heard that the DCR or some other public works groups actually raises hawks and introduces them to city life to keep the pigeon population at reasonable levels. I never really thought about it until it was said, but Boston does have far less pigeons than any other major metropolitan city that I've ever been to.

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I know there's boxes on several financial district buildings - peregrine falcons like them (evidently enough like nesting on cliffsides) along with the plentiful pigeon take-out nearby. We've had a red tail hawk take one of our backyard squirrels in JP, and routinely see red tails in the Fenway, Riverway, and Arboretum.

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A friend in JP was sitting in her back yard and heard a whooshing noise like a helicopter (though not so loud). A few seconds later, a great horned owl swooped in and picked off a squirrel that had been minding its own business. They live in the Arboretum as well.

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This is one of the two offspring from this year's nest a block away on the Arlington Street Church (you can see some remnants of the nest under the East-facing clock on the steeple). They've nested there for four years in a row. The adults have stopped feeding the young so they're having to hunt for themselves and they're not very good at it and that makes them conspicuous as they stumble around chasing after stuff they have no chance of catching.

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