Red-tailed Hawk Attacks Great Horned Owl At Nest, Reveals Hatchling Owlet | Cam 3 - Feb. 19, 2022
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- In a wild turn of events on the Savannah Owl cam, a Red-tailed Hawk attacks the female and pulls her off the nest bowl. Thankfully, the female recovers quickly and seems unharmed. The female's short trip off the nest revealed that her owlet has finished hatching sometime in the early morning hours of February 19!
Red-tailed Hawk attacks at Great Horned Owl nests have been documented before, although catching them on cam is rare. Adult Great Horned Owls have no common predators, but unattended eggs and nestlings may fall prey to foxes, coyotes, raccoons, lynx, raptors, crows, and ravens. Interactions such as these more likely have to do with territorial disputes than the hawks being interested in a meal.
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During the Fall of 2014, a pair of Great Horned Owls began frequenting an abandoned Bald Eagle nest adjacent to a protected, nutrient-rich salt marsh along the Georgia coast. This nest sat nearly 80′ above one of the six Audubon International Certified golf courses at The Landings, on Skidaway Island, near Savannah, Georgia. Over the course of 2015 and 2016, a pair of owls successfully fledged four owlets from the site, but they did not return to breed in 2017.
Instead, a pair of Ospreys began renovating the nest and committed to breeding at the same site from 2017 to 2019, when the dead tree that held the nest was removed due to being designated as a falling hazard. A new nest site was erected in an adjacent tree in the fall of 2019, and the Ospreys were quick to take up residence in 2020 and 2021.
In January 2022, a pair of Great Horned Owls returned to the cam site to nest for the first time since 2016.
Great Horned Owls are fierce predators that hunt a diverse assortment of prey. They are generally nocturnal hunters, but will also hunt in broad daylight. Throughout the nesting period, the owls may arrive at the nest site with meals of small- to medium-sized mammals, reptiles, fish, and birds of all sizes.
Female Great Horned Owls spend most of the time at the nest caring for eggs and owlets while males hunt for food. After fledging, young may remain with their parents for 3-4 months before dispersing from natal territories.
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Oh my! That woke her up! Hope she & her babies are okay! 😳😮🦉💤🦅
Usually it is the owls paying a visit to osprey, eagles and other birds in the dark of night. Guess turn-about is fair play.
😧😰Oh My God!! It was a brutal attack! I'm glad Mom owl wasn't hurt and soon came back to brood her owlet. I'm praying for their safety and health. 🙏🦉🐣🥚🙏 May God bless and protect them! 🙏🙏 Thanks for sharing. 😟😥❤️🦉🐣❤️🙏
Yes please protect them all.Love them all!🦉🦉🦉
It was awful. So sad! She was so tired and falling asleep. Literally could have killed her.
The Great Horned Owl looks at the Blue Jay like "it's a little to late for that warning call" 🤣
I love Owls as much as anyone, but the Hawk wasn't being mean, it was just being a hawk.
well, we can still consider it mean!
doesnt mean there should be consequences to the hawk or anything. But they were being kind of a dick 🤣
@@DragonbornCanid not for nothing Great horned owls do not work hard & make nests, they try to steal the current nest or old nest of another large bird, heron, hawk, eagle etc. & AT NIGHT these owls, on silent feathers, sucker punch these other large birds& Raptors- so when this happens- the Hawk isn't being a dick- to protect her future nests & chick's in the future- she's just letting the owl know that " yo, I know you have a slight advantage at night but if you keep f*#$@! With Mr, my husband & my children at night, then in the daytime, as soon as possible, I will do everything I can to not only displace you & YOUR YOUNG, but I will also tear your head right off your shoulders." & yes folks- Red tails do overcome Ghos in the wild. It's on record. Eagles? They usually kill owls anyway so we don't need to go there
No duh. Doesn't make it pleasant to watch. It body slammed this owl. Vicious af. Poor Mama.
Oh please, like she hasn’t wiped out families of baby chicks before
I go for hawks, eagles and falcons, NEVER for owls.
It is interesting to see this happen because the GHO seems like the ultimate predator-generally at night for many animals. I was first introduced to the GHO because of their attacks on the Bald Eagle nest of Harriet and M15. I hope she’s unharmed and can have some peace, she looked startled. I think you can hear the call of the Hawk after the attack.
Wait 'til the osprey pair return from vacation. Things will get really lively when that happens.....
That's a super BRAVE & FAST Hawk!! He needs to come to Atlanta & play for our basketball team!! We sure could use him & a few of his buddies!
OMG poor mama owl sweetheart hope both are ok. aww.
I thought some comments on here were a little mean (because we love a mom & baby) but I did a bunch of reading and GHOs account for about 30% of red-tailed hawk chick deaths. I hadn't realized how much competition there was between the two birds in general, though it makes sense. I've been watching the nest cam for RTHs Big Red & Arthur on this channel for about 5 years and I love them too. Nature can be harsh but that's how it is. I'm so thankful to have the opportunity to watch them in a "natural" setting like this. Also glad I wasn't born a vole!
Woah! That was scary.
Wow! That hit made me jump. So glad owlet wasn't hurt and we got to see it. With that hawk around, I hope mom doesn't have to leave the nest for food. Hope dad is doing a lot of hunting.
OH MY GOODNESS!!! That was quite a smack!! She's on alert now!! Poor thing g was sleeping 😴 good!!💕🦉❤🦉
You want to see what owls 🦉 do in the night to other birds of prey they will go out of there way to kill kestrels buzzards sparrow hawks etc etc in the dark of night 💥
@@Falconer710 😢😢😥😭
I promise you that owl has given as good as he got.
For everyone that are hoping if she’s ok. She’s definitely ok. Hopefully that Hawk is ok because They’re going to hunt that Hawk until it’s dead because Owls are very territorial and having that type of threat is something for them to resolve that solution at night. I’ve worked at a Raptor Sanctuary, and for sure every Raptor are terrified of Owls. Owls are known to kill Hawks and Eagles.
I saw this and commented on the other post! I thought it was another owl. What I don’t understand is why she didn’t hear the hawk - I thought they are supposed to have impeccable hearing! So worried for the two of them. That was insane to watch🦉
Honestly, I think hawks are stealthy quite.
@@beadladee True, and so are owls.
@quercus Again, true, but so are seasoned, formidable and agile adult Red Tailed Hawks.
@@quercus4730 I just had one swoop down 8 ft from me to almost get a chicken. I didn’t have a clue it was coming. The whole thing was quite.
My boy got the villa at the ritz of a nest here god dang
I have some Great Horned Owls, Red Tailed Hawks, and Broad Wing Hawks in my back yard forest. I used to have a bunch of cottontail rabbits, chipmunks, squirrels, song birds around but they're now all gone after the Owls and Hawks showed up. One time I saw an Owl eating one of the cottontails that used to feed in my backyard for over a year.
Oh dear 😮
Nature is hard. For every animal.
whoa!
Wo to that hawk if they meet in the night
Wow, they were both very lucky!
Oh my gosh that was intense!!!
Cute hoots at the end!
That woke me up too!
The GHOW might just as easily do that to red--tailed hawk on a nest if eggs haven't been laid yet. That is huge nest too. I'll bet it is an old bald eagle nest.
At night it looks like the nest and mother owl are brightly illuminated. Does anyone know if there a light shining on them? Thanks,
Wow! Do the moderators have any idea what she was tracking right before she got hit? Perhaps another red tail?
I think the hawk was after the rodent laying next to the owl. Also, what is wrong with the owl's left pupil?
Owl was looking like; what the hell was that?
Wow!!!😮 We are going to have a BIG headache! 🤕
OH man! She is going to tell!
why did the hawk attack the owl?
It's in the description above. They said they think it's territorial more than trying to get a meal. They list the predators that owlets DO fall prey to. 😃😄💕
Hangry hawk 😔😳😵😮🦉💤🦅
@Fuzzy Knuckle 🤣😂🤣👍👍
The hawk must know there’s a baby for it to attack. It definitely wouldn’t try to eat the adult GHO. GHO are top of the food chain for a reason.
Don't get it twisted, adult Eagles, Goshawks and Red tails are on record killing ghos. I have photos of a red killing an adult female gho. & no, they are not on top of the food chain. Ghos sometimes figure into the menu of Golden & Bald eagles. & many species of owls are on the menu of many other Raptor/ hawk species.
The can't fade the great one
Mamma owl has the ultimate WTF look...
😩😩😩😩😢😭🥺🥺🥺I hope there ok
Oh no!! Nature can be so mean 😔 Thankfully everyone is 👍
I never knew so much fluff could be an effective armor.
Watching often (live) since weeks, now i'm disturbed :(
Poor thing! She looks to be saying, What was that????
I watched this the other day and noticed that her left eye has dilated after the strike. This will return to normal, but it was interesting to see. I had to come back to watch this again to see if I was correct in what I thought I had seen. She is fine.... I just watched a mob of crows sounding off over her nest, she wasn't bothered a bit.
Yeah, this time, but she was dealt a stunning blow. Adult Reds are nothing to mess around with either.
I was wondering about this, thanks
@@frankmorse7929 I was once working in a woodland and someone flew right by my head. It was a female Red-tailed Hawk, I left the woods and on the way out I saw the nest. I waited 4 weeks before I went back in to finish the job. I felt her breeze going by my head and that is what she wanted me to feel!
That was so hard to watch
Between the eagles and the hawks, I’m worried for this owl family. I bet mom never sleeps. How did that hawk sneak up like that?
Dominica--owls are nite time Predators and sleep during the day--From the R T hawk side, it has all the advantage---chosing when to attacking a sleeping owl
@@mikehalahan104 yes I know they’re nocturnal 😜 perhaps the owls will have their revenge come nightfall.
@@loveall3890 yes I know owls are predators, but that doesn’t make me care less about them when seeing a video like this. Keep moving, troll.
That smack came really quick. I'm guess this was once the best of the hawk and GHO usually take them over when they're abandoned
When they attack M15, we "hate" them GHO, but when they're attacked by hawks, it's a different story. Poor mama, and her owlet seems really cute. ^^
Is there a dad to help protect them?
Did anyone get the license number of that car that just hit me and my kid? Geez just trying to nap and can never be spared...
That was awful to watch. Poor Mama! I'm usually Team Red Tail but NO. How dare you, RH. How dare you body slam this poor tired Mama. Nature is not cool when it's like this.
All I am wondering is why the hawk/owl attacked this mama owl. He didn't continue his raid. So he didn't do that for food. Is it just for fun? A teasing? Being naughty?
territory! great horned owl is threatening
Poor MAMA😱😱😱
A bit of real time info has not been inserted here for all of you folks. GHOs rely on attacking prey- including dangerous prey such as other raotors. however Other raptors such as Red taied hawks, Ospreys, adult Goshawks, ferruginous hawks as well as a few others are all documented killing a gho.
Cracks me up. " oh poor owl, that hawk nearly tore the owls head off".. Like the owl doesn't do this to other daytime raptors at night- often too... This owl is getting a taste of it's own medicine. It would have been even worse had it been a bald or better yet- A golden eagle.
So a Hawk was brought to the nest as food last night, I wonder if it was this Red-tailed Hawk? lol
unfortunately no! no red feathers, only brown. but i had the same thought!
@@kigut7443 I have since learned it was a Barred Owl. It does not matter in my mind though, as everyone has to eat in and feed their young.
It could have been the hawks nest originally. One on one, a great horned owl has little to fear from a hawk. She can handle herself well if she needs to. She was just taken by surprise.
This nest has been occupied by osprey for a number of years and they should be returning fairly soon as this nest starts earlier than the northern ones. Needless to say, Mr. & Mrs. Osprey will NOT be amused to find a GHO parked in their nest.
Agree with Leo's comment--unless hawk gets in a lucky Talon hit on the face or wing component--Mom owl just got her sleep interrupted --Same thing at SWFL and Eagles there--a Female GHO weighs 5 lbs Tops and smacks into M 15 who outweighs her by 2:1 and outsizes her by almost 3: 1 Mom owl is doing what she should --Protecting her two young Hatchlings.
Don't get it twisted. One on one in daylight, any adult gho, male or female has plenty to fear from an attack from an angry, seasoned and formidable adult Red Tail, especially a female. Almost as powerful and much much faster, Red tails don't rely on silent feathers for a single pounce from behind at night, Red tails are true fighters and will attack, fight and kill. Adult Red tails, Goshawks, Osp, Ferruginous, Golden and Bald eagles are all on record killing adult Ghos. It goes both ways. This big Red Tail just gave thus owl an attention getting stoop and still the power from that alone damn near knocked that owl back something fierce.
@@frankmorse7929 Watched plenty of juvenile osprey end up owlet lunch of the years. GHOs and BEs quickly wipe out entire osprey nests.
I think the osprey that lived here got killed by a raven??
That hit made me jump, it was a brutal attack, poor owl she looks confused ''what was that!?" said the mama owl.
This is just crazy to watch!
Ouch! 😔 I hope that hawk has a bad memory!!
the hawk may be the rightful owner of this nest....it just came to try to take it back I guess. Owls are squatters.
I like hawks and owls
Hawks are a pain in the azz and need tending too. Warn them they die If they get close to your yard critters
They have the same behavior with falcons at night
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Holy crap, that made me jump so bad, i dropped my phone. Don't know why I thought I'd of had a warning? That was worse than being scared @ a horror movie. I'm glad to see the owl is ok & yes it's just a hawk being a hawk, but there's a baby so I'm glad the hawk didn't win this one.
You ok, Karen?
Glad she’s ok. GHO attack bald eagles all the time.
Yeah, sucker punched from behind at night on silent feathers, but when the eagle catches the owl, it's a wrap.
😲Qué golpe le ha metido
Uaau! Que susto! Ainda bem que tudo acabou bem! Desta vez...
Какие жестокие законы у природы...
Omg are they ok?? When I saw that lil baby I literally died !! Soooooo adorable why would that hawk do that!!!!
Territorial dispute. The Hawk feels the Great Horned Owls are a little to close as neighbors. Raptors are very territorial, with any intrusion being met with swift attacks.
As the comment below noted--Territorial Dispute--It's a brutal part of nature--We don't know if the owls come around at Nite and attack the hawks nest--we see only a small part of what's going on in this situation.
Maybe there will be a time when nature is different and these poor mommies can enjoy raising their young.
Raising a killer.
🧐😠😠😠😠
Wow talk about with one eye open , mama owl was on him like lightening no way he was getting any of he babies ,what a great mother not like some of the all day pajama and slipper wearing ones I see around these days driving or walking to the drops or school even collecting the kids from school dressed like that ,,ahh come on FFS do they then sleep in those same PJ'S as well after making the dinner and washing the clothes an house in them or do they have in door and out door PJ's ,maybe it's me I'm 46 now maybe I just don't get the trend the young kids have these days ,maybe their the new trend setters like the beetles did with their hair cuts I'm the 50s ,these mainly young women not changing their clothes they slept in and taking the kids im to and from school whilst popping in doing a bit of shopping in aldi with the oul winnie the poo slippers on ,their just being new age rebels and I bet their personnel hygiene is emmuculate its just the clothes style sorry pajamas style I mean il have to stop getting it wrong , but we live in a world now where the old saying "Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt" can actually be "bobs your uncle and Fanny's your uncle now last year she was your auny" or "bobs your aunt and Fanny's non binary so today's she your aunt ,be make sure ask her next time you see her because she might be your uncle that day "...were all F%@ked
I’d love to slap that hawk, leave my gals alone😡 grrrrr
Nice to see paybacks... the owls in the Florida area moved into the territory of Bald Eagles Harriet and M15 and have been annoying them for awhile mainly getting M15 at night. They even have the nerve to attack the Eagles even though they are using the secondary nest of those Eagles....No gratitude at all. lol
What a hit, that was an incredibly brave hawk or very stupid one to attack a GHO, hope mom & baby ok
Why? Very intelligent hawk. Adult Red Tails are nothing to mess around with either and certainly are capable of harming the owl.
The stupid remark was aimed at the act, not intellect, the reason being the GHO's mate was surely perched nearby & could of gone after the hawk. My choice of words could of been better.
I hope the hawk come not back. I wish a friedly life.
why is it that NO ONE has recorded when these owlets hatched--isn't that important to know?!!!!!!!!
Very interesting..... I would have thought mama owl will hear the incoming of the hawk.... but it's good that mama owl is unharmed and owlet is safe.
Whoaaaa.....even the king predator has to watch out
Where is her mate?
Just relaxing & doing her thing and . . . Pow!