On Tuesday evening March 23 Pete Stahl of St. Albert took some high quality video of the nest across from City Ford at the NE corner of St. Albert Trail & 156 St. The bird is sitting high in a basket nest put up by Hardy Pletz & Rick Morse. For a number of years this nest was occupied very early in the season. Over the last few years it has been unused until I sighted an owl in it a couple weeks ago. Peter stayed after sunset & was able to photograph a young chick of approx. 10 days of age sitting up under the female. There are probably more young which were not visible. She would have layed eggs at the beginning of February! I have been told of another nest in SE Edmonton off Roper Road which also has 3 young in it. We will be starting our Hawk Survey at Beaverhill L. next Sunday April 4 & Brian Stevens informed me of a Great Horned Owl on a Redtail Hawk nest on Twp. 504 between Rge Rd.190-191. A pair nested there 2 years ago but wind blew the tree over. Last spring a Redtail built a new nest on the SE corner of the woodlot which was much easier to monitor. We will also be checking the nest at Coyote Auto Wreckers on Twp 504 & Rge Rd 185. The first report of a Redtail Hawk in the area comes from Hwy 16 on the east side of Elk Island Park observed by Ken Hansen on Mar. 26.
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