Where’s my mommy?
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- June
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A month-old red-tailed hawk ended up this week at the Green Chimneys school in Patterson, most likely after falling out of its nest. The school cares for a slew of hawks, owls and eagles as part of its students’ animal-assisted therapy program. 
Among the school’s residents are a pair of red-tailed hawks which, because of the injuries they once suffered, can’t be released back into the wild. They’re both females.
But that didn’t stop one of them from laying eggs this spring, unfertilized, of course. The pair tried to raise the eggs – sitting on them for 10 or 15 days more than required – before finally giving up. They abandoned their nest about two weeks ago, Paul Kupchok, the school’s wildlife director said.
Now, Kupchok hopes to harness that maternal instinct and have the two female red-tails raise the young bird. He plans to place the young bird in with the girls and see if they act like parents.
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Journal News staff writer Greg Clary writes Earth Watch, reporting on environmental issues in the lower Hudson region. Clary has been a reporter, editor and columnist at the Journal News since 1988 and has covered police and courts, transportation, municipal government, development and the environment in the Lower Hudson Valley, among other topics. 
Laura Incalcaterra covers the environment, open space and zoning and planning issues for The Journal News. A Boston College graduate, Laura grew up in Rockland, attended East Ramapo schools and has worked for The Journal News since 1993. Laura has written features and covered North Rockland, crime, government and a host of other issues.
Mike Risinit covers Patterson and Kent in Putnam County, as well as environmental topics touching on the Hudson River and the Great Swamp. Risinit has been a reporter at The Journal News since 1998.
