🥚🥚🥚 Take a close-up look at Big Red and Arthur’s three eggs at the Cornell Hawks nest as Big Red carefully tends to her nest cup. Red-tailed Hawk eggs are smooth and white, often with a faint buffy wash. They can also display beautiful markings, including reddish-brown, dark brown, or purple speckles and blotches. Tune in LIVE at https://AllAboutBirds.org/CornellHawks | Bird Cams

🥚🥚🥚 Egg #3 has arrived at the Cornell Hawks nest! On a blustery morning in Ithaca, New York, Big Red revealed her third brown-speckled egg. So far, she’s laid one egg every three days: March 27, March 30, and April 2. Is the clutch complete? Time will tell. In her past 12 breeding attempts on cam, Big Red has laid a 3-egg clutch 10 times and a 4-egg clutch twice, in 2022 and 2024. We’ll likely know if she’s done laying eggs by April 6 this season! | Bird Cams

Preening time at the Cornell Hawks nest! Big Red takes a moment to sweetly preen her 13- and 17-day-old chicks on May 20. So far during the nestling period, Big Red and Arthur have been working tirelessly to keep their two growing chicks well-fed and protected. Keep watching LIVE at https://AllAboutBirds.org/CornellHawks | Bird Cams

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18K views · 1.6K reactions | Akin to the neighborhood postman, neither rain, sleet, nor snow will stop the Red-tailed Hawks from their incubation duties! Here, Arthur relieves a snow-covered Big Red and carefully settles over the eggs as blustering winds direct a near horizontal snowfall over the nest. Tune in LIVE at AllAboutBirds.org/CornellHawks | Bird Cams | Facebook

On the Cornell Hawks cam, Big Red monitors her surroundings at the Fernow nest site while the camera zooms in for a close-up. Later, Arthur arrives with a chipmunk, and Big Red takes it to go while he spruces up the nest with some stick arrangements. When can we expect the first egg of 2022? The earliest lay date on record for Big Red is March 13 in 2016, so it could be coming any day. We'll be watching closely over the next week! Watch LIVE at AllAboutBirds.org/CornellHawks | Bird Cams