The young hawks have hatched. Because they were living at the bottom of nest, the newborn nestlings could not be seen from the ground. With the help of our community’s maintenance staff, I was able to gain access to the empty fourth floor unit right next door to the nest. I opened a living room shutter, and was able to photograph one of the adult hawks at very close range, less than a dozen feet away. I was so involved in photographing the adult hawk in such close proximity that I did not notice the presence of two of these nestlings until I was saw the image later on my computer. The hawk had placed its body squarely between itself and my 400 mm lens, hiding the two nestlings behind her. I made about thirty photographs of the protective hawk, and in just one of them, for a very brief instant, the heads and beaks of its tiny white nestlings were visible.