Lab Mascot

This was an appropriate sight in the parking lot at Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

I learned from a person at the lab that this hawk, which we’ve seen before around Sapsucker Woods, was rehabilitated and released nearby, and he’s just stayed around. People don’t rattle him. It made me wonder if the hawk we saw yesterday might have been a rehabilitated hawk as well. That would help to explain his lack of fear around people.

I notice that when hawks launch, they always go down before they go up. Food for thought.