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May 30, 2007

Reunited with their baby hawk, parents provide

BARRINGTON -- It took less than 24 hours for the parents of a baby red-tailed hawk to discover that their baby had been returned to them and bring it food -- a snake.

John Maxson of the Born to Be Wild Nature Center in Westerly said the center received two calls today reporting that the parents had found the baby and resumed caring for it.

The baby and two siblings were inadvertently knocked from their nest last week when groundskeepers cut down a dying pine tree at the Rhode Island Country Club. The two other babies were killed but the remaining three-week-old was taken to the Westerly center while a makeshift nest was prepared for it back at the golf course.

Maxson’s wife, Vivian, who led the effort to restore the baby to the nest, had predicted that the chances that the parents would find the baby were “one hundred percent,” and sure enough, the first caller to the center today said the mother had been seen moving material to revamp the manmade nest on a three-foot-square wooden pallet.

Later, an official from the state Department of Environmental Management said the mother was seen delivering dinner.

“It’s a done deal,” Maxson said of the reunion. “It’s wonderful.”

-- Journal East Bay bureau

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