Red-tailed Hawk on cliff nest with nestling

Here is the Red-tailed Hawk whose nest is on the small ledge on the cliff whose pics I posted below. It is with one of it's two nestlings (the other is lying down in the nest). The nestling has the very white head.

Sorry the pics aren't sharper but this nest is several hundred feet from the road and I lose crispness when I enlarge it.
SeEtta

Red-tailed Hawk is very good mom

The Red-tailed Hawk, that I posted on that has a nest on a cliff, is still on the nest though her two nestlings are getting close to fledging. And what a good mom she is--we have had 90+ degrees F temps for past several days and she lays in nest with her wings spread out to shade her nestlings.

The top pic shows mom Red-tail shading her nestlings (sorry pic is not crisper but the nest is about a tenth of a mile away so this is the best I can do with enlarging). One of her nestlings is almost adult size while the second bird is substantially smaller. The bottom pic shows that pieces of the nest have fallen to a ledge below the small ledge on which the nest was built. I thought it looked awful precarious and I suppose that now with 3 largish hawks sticks get pushed over the edge.
SeEtta

Cliff nesting Red-tailed Hawk

I found this Red-tailed Hawk on the nest that was plastered to a cliff about 80-100 feet above the ground. This nest is in the Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas-II block I am surveying and is the second Red-tailed Hawk nests on a cliff I have found in this one block.

As can be seen in the top pic, the nest is located on a small ledge. It really surprised me that the large nest can actually stay up on this ledge since a lot of nest sticks protrude over the ledge. In fact, the ledge appears so small that the nest looks almost like a swallow nest that is just mud-plastered to the side of the cliff. If you look close at the top pic a white fuzzy object is in the nest directly below the hawks head--that is a nestling.

The bottom pic shows just how this nest looks on the cliff (though it is enlarge some so that the nest looks like more than a patch of vegetation).
SeEtta