Posted by Big Daddy on June 10, 2010
For weeks, I was backed up in crazy traffic by Alewife in Cambridge. As I would get through it, I would notice there were no ambulances, police, fire or any type of emergency vehicle around to explain the backup. No smashed cars, tow trucks or even an Ice Cream truck giving out free cones. No reason whatsoever for the daily backup! I was getting mad because I couldn’t figure out why it was happening or why all these people were camping out with telescopes looking at a building. Then I realized, THEY were the reason traffic was backed up! Well, they weren’t the only reason.
The Hawks up in their nest
It was the Hawks sitting up in their 7th story nest on a building overlooking the road that was the problem! But still, all these people camped out like 11 year olds waiting to buy their Jonas Brothers tickets was causing more rubber necking by drivers than a guy in suspenders with plumbers crack changing the tire of his Camper on 128. I HATE curiosity traffic and rubber necking! Nothing makes me more mad than sitting around for hours because people just have to see what the persons face looks like getting a ticket on the side of the road! Now that I have that off my chest….
Hawk Stalkers
Once I did a little research online, I found out more about these Hawks. Like that they have names: Buzz & Ruby. I also found some interesting videos by a guy named Ernie Sarro. He has a site (www.gotoernie.com) that he has been updating with video and pictures. I was able to get Ernie on the phone to talk about the Hawks. I had some burning questions, and Ernie answered them all!
Hawk Watcher / Ernie Sarro
***CLICK HERE*** to listen to my interview with Ernie. We cover everything from how did all these people take so much time out of work to watch the Hawks to how some crazy church people showed up saying the Hawks were Satan!
Here is one of his video’s of the Hawks:
Here are some pictures of the Hawks & Friends:
Ruby on the babies
The babies chillin' in the crib
Teach us how to fly!
I just watched the early video of Buzz and Ruby.
How absolutely breathtaking and magnificent.
Such Precious lives trying to survive in a man
dominated world.
Comment by Margaret C — June 10, 2010 @ 5:14 pm
Big Daddy that coverage was as professional as any of the several news outlets that have covered this Buzz & Ruby phenomenon. Great job editing out my stumbles and it was a very fun interview. I am emailing it to over 100 hawk enthusiasts on my list and I’ll post it on my blog which gets a lot of hits. Thanks for mentioning my website and keeping this important community happening in the public eye.
Ernie Sarro
Comment by Ernie Sarro — June 10, 2010 @ 7:07 pm
I work in the office building where the family is now hanging out in the mornings, just behind the shopping center on Alewife Parkway. I first met Buzz four summers ago: I had a bird feeder on my office window that attracted mourning doves, and they in turn attracted Buzz. One day he settled on the railing about 6 feet from my window and I could see the tag on his ankle (but not close enough to read it). The mourning doves flew off at his arrival. Same thing the next day. On the third day, as I walked into the building, I passed a big pile of mourning dove feathers! Buzz has been especially happy in the big pine tree beside our parking lot -he’s been in and out of that tree for the past year. There is a daycare center just below the tree (the fledglings are now often on the daycare center roof). I guess Buzz was checking out the neighborhood this psat year before moving in, and decided it was a kid-friendly place.
I love walking in to the building every morning to the screeching of baby hawks. I hope Buzz and Ruby feel this has been a successful location, and return next year.
- Andrea
Comment by Andrea — June 23, 2010 @ 7:02 am