Red Tailed Hawk

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height="32" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Red-tailed Hawk as Totem</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Hawks are one of the most intriguing and mystical of the birds of prey. They are the messengers and the protectors, and the visionaries of the air. Hawks and owls have the keenest eyes of all raptors.</B></div> <div> <B>Hawks vary in size, appearance, and environments. There are so many different species that it is sometimes difficult to tell them apart from one another. All hawks are impressive and stir the imagination. Their hunting ability, their eyesight, and their powerful flights and other behaviors are all dynamic symbols of the hawk totem.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Red Tailed Hawk:</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>The red tail is very symbolic. It is believed to have ties to the Kundalini, the seat of primal life force. In the human body it is associated with the base chakra, located at the base of the spine or coccyx or tailbone. Those who have a red-tailed hawk as a totem will be individuals working with the kundalini. It can also reflect that this bird becomes a totem in your life only after the kundalini has become activated. It can also reflect that the childhood visions are becoming empowered and fulfilled. It may pop up as a totem at that point in your life where you begin to move toward your soul purpose more dynamically.</B></div> <div> <B>The red-tailed hawk is a member of the Buteo family or the group of soaring hawks. The ability to soar and glide upon the currents is part of what hawk can teach. Although it is a part of this species, it is most often seen perched on top of telephone poles or buildings using its keen eyesight to hunt for prey. It teaches how to fly to great heights while still keeping both feet planted firmly on the ground.</B></div> <div> <B>Hawks are occasionally harassed or attacked by smaller birds. This is very significant to those of you with hawk as a totem. It indicates that there are likely to be attacks by people who won't understand you or the varied and different uses of your creative energy. They may attack your ability to soar.</B></div> <div> <B>The red-tailed hawk is usually a permanent resident in an area, although occasionally it may migrate. This permanency reflects that as a totem, that hawk will be with you permanently once it shows up.</B></div> <div> <B>Although incorrectly called a “chicken-hawk”, the red-tail feeds mostly on rabbits, rodents, and snakes. It has a very adaptable diet, which has helped it to survive.</B></div> <div> <B>It is generally accepted that red-tails mate for life. Both the male and the female help care for the young. Two to three eggs are laid in the spring. They vigorously defend their nests against intruders. They will cling to their home territories for years. And they can live up to 14 years in the wild.</B></div> <div> <B>This “14” is significant. The 14</B><B>th</B><B> card in the tarot is the card for temperance. This is the card that represents the teaching of higher expressions of psychism and vision. It can be used in the development of astral projection, new flights out of the body. It has ties to the activation of your vital energies (Kundalini), and the bold expression of it. It is tied to the archetypal forces that teach beauty and harmony in moderation. It holds the keys to higher levels of consciousness.</B></div> <div> <B>Rising to a higher level can bring a rapid development of the psychic energies. The red-tailed hawk can help us in balancing and using those senses appropriately. It teaches the balance necessary to discover our true pathways in life. If you have a red-tailed hawk as a totem, meditation on the 14</B><B>th</B><B> tarot card will help you to see how hawk can lead you to use your creative energy in manifesting your soul purpose.</B></div> <div> <B>The red-tail of the red-tailed hawk reflects a great intensity of energy at play within your life. It reflects an intensity of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual forces. This bird is the catalyst, stimulating hope and new ideas. It reflects a need to be open to the new or shows you ways that you may he</B><B>lp teach others to be open to the new.</B></div> <div> <B>Because of the strong energy (this intensified life force) activated by this totem, an individual with it must be careful with how they express themselves. There will within you appear the ability to tear off the heads of any snakes in your life, or anyone or anything seen as an enemy in your life. Your comments and actions will be like the hawk's beak and talons, strong and powerful, but with the ability to kill or and/or kill.</B></div> <div> <B>The feathering of the red-tailed hawk actually has two phases; both of these are significant to anyone with this totem. Its feathering is lighter during the summer, and darker in the winter. The lighter is often symbolic of more joyful and sociable kinds of energies. The darker can represent a time to be alone or withdraw for a while. The red-tail and its colors help to guard us against burning to bright and to intensely, so that we do not burn out.</B></div> <div> <B>The sky is the realm of the hawk. Through its flight it communicates with humans and with the great creator spirit. It awakens our vision and inspires us to a creative life purpose.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="12b19200.gif" border=0 width="537" height="32" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Hawk</B></div> <div> <B>Illumination</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Hawk has been called the Keeper of the Sunlight. As such, the hawk provides us with illumination and clarity. The hawk has very keen eyesight, and sees even the smallest detail. In addition to the detail, the hawk can see the entire field in which it's prey is. In this way, the hawk can strike clear and true. This tells us that people with Hawk Medicine have the ability to objectively see the whole picture as well as the little things. These people often think things through before they speak or act. When they choose to confront an issue, they normally go right to the "heart" of it. The hawk is a messenger from the Otherworld, and if he has chosen to visit you this day, you are receiving a message. Could it be that you are not following the call. Call on the spirit of hawk to give you strength, courage, and clarity to move forward.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="14919200.gif" border=0 width="537" height="32" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>As we each strive to grow and change in new directions, we are reminded of the lesson of the many spokes on the wheel of Life. Each of us will stand on every spoke of the Medicine Wheel. At some time or other we will all walk on similar trails through the forest. The time for hierarchy is over; every man, woman, and child on this planet is a Medicine Person. It makes no difference who or what we are, what training we have had, or what race we come from. If we would all use our healing abilities to heal the inner conflicts in our lives, we would have the right to use that Medicine to assist others. All humans have been given the mission of healing themselves. The inner peace of self-healing can restore our Sacred Space and that of All Our Relations. In accomplishing this common goal we will bring world peace into reality. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="14b19200.gif" border=0 width="537" height="32" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>More to be added soon....</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="12b19200.gif" border=0 width="537" height="32" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="129c8980.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="152" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="128c8990.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="153" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="127c8a90.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="169" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="126c8950.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="149" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="12ac89b0.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="155" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="119dd990.jpg" border=0 width="221" height="153" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="125c88b0.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="139" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="124c8a00.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="160" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1237dbf0.jpg" border=0 width="125" height="191" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="122c88e0.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="142" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="121c89c0.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="156" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="120c8970.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="151" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>About Red-Tailed Hawk</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Red-tailed Hawk is a large hawk, and overall, its body is heavier than other buteos. When viewed from above it looks dark brown or reddish in color. However, like most hawks, it is often seen while flying. From below this hawk is light brown or rusty colored with a creamy white chest. It has a dark obvious belly band. This hawk's most notable feature is its uniformly reddish colored tail which has a narrow dark band and a light colored tip. It is this tail of the adult bird that gives the Red-tailed Hawk its name. A juvenile's tail is not as striking. It is often white at the base, brownish in color, and finely barred. There are two color phases of the Red-tailed: the brown phase and the pale white-tailed phase. In both phases, this hawk's plumage is extremely variable in color.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>It screams with a loud-harsh down slurred squeal that is often quite prolonged. Sounding <IMG SRC="5e4c8ac0.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="172" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">something like a downward slurring: keee-ahrrr, or keeer-r-r-r. During the mating season it soars high into the air with conspicuous flight displays and loud cries</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Typically, this hawk lays 1 to 4 whitish-faintly marbled eggs in a large stick nest. Inside the nest, the eggs are kept within a neat cup-shaped structure lined with tender roots and fresh green twigs. Often found in woodlands, the Red-tailed Hawk will build its nest in the fork of a large tree or on a cliff.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>This hawk can typically be found where there are open hunting areas with woodland seclusion for nesting and plenty of small animals. The Red-tail's most characteristic habitat is a natural savanna. However, this raptor may be found in open country, woodlands, prairie groves, mountains, plains, farmlands, and even along roadsides.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Red-tailed Hawks may range from the tundra to semi-desert areas. They have been seen in both North and Central America. These hawks can be found in Alaska and from Canada all the way down to Panama.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="588" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 693 WIDTH="584"><div> <B>Because this hawk usually hunts in open country it can sometimes be seen perching atop telephone poles, haystacks, or fence posts. Often this raptor will sit for hours and then suddenly spring into the air and glide off to surprise its prey. A Red-tailed Hawk will prey on rabbits, lizards, squirrels and other rodents. In fact, it plays an important part in controlling rodent populations, and because of this, it can be a great ally to farmers.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="5e2e15e0.jpg" border=0 width="225" height="350" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">When this hawk is flying directly at an observer, it gives the impression that it has a pair of "headlights" on its wings. This illusion is due to a light colored wrist area on each of the hawk's wings.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="626" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 82 WIDTH="622"><div> <B>The Red--tailed Hawk is one of nature's best examples of the system of ecological checks and balances, as it feeds almost entirely upon rodents. A magnificent bird, it soars on the currents of the upper air. Hundreds of feet above the earth, it can distinguish an earth brown rat scurrying across a bare hen yard. Plummeting down upon its prey, it is shot by a enraged farmer, who discovers too late the true killer of his baby chicks, the rat in the dead hawk's talons. </B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>And now the Redtail's mate must carry on alone. in a gnarled old oak deep in a wooded ravine is a mass of sticks and twigs that the Redtails had used from time to time for a decade. this year they had cleaned out the winter's accumulation of debris, strengthened the foundations, and laid a fresh new lining in the spacious interior. By mid--March three spotted eggs already contained well - developed embryos,and the old bird had been setting like a barnyard hen, making only brief forays for food. </B></div> <div> <B>When the chicks hatch, the mother's duties will be doubled. Risking the danger of exposure to weather and enemies, she must leave them to scour the woods and fields. Ground squirrels, rabbits, rats, mice, snakes, grasshoppers, cattle grubs, and crawfish are carried to the nest in endless succession. Can she be blamed too severely if, in the harried search for food, she discovers a chicken yard ? </B></div> <div> <B>Almost anymore who has raised poultry can relate one or more "chicken hawk" tails. Unique was a veteran who operated a poultry farm. He observed that he did not begrudge the hawks a few hens occasionally, for they usually took the sick and weak, and at the same time they destroyed rats and mice in far larger proportions than fowl, healthy or diseased. Down along the creek he found a bulky nest high in an old elm. And so he posted the land, and the birds continued to soar in all their majesty over pasture and hillside and hen house. The "No Hunting" sigh protected only his own few acres. The Redtails protected far more.</B></div> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>