Red-tailed Hawk Nest at SU Archway

An Urban Raptor Nest

This camera looks straight down into the Red-tailed Hawk nest built on a building archway at Syracuse University. The woven platform of sticks sits high on the historic campus, where the hawks have chosen the sheltered ledge as their breeding home.

Oren and Ruth's Legacy

The nest belongs to Oren and Ruth, a pair that continues a long lineage of campus hawks. Oren himself hatched on another SU archway, and the pair returns each season to raise their brood, making this one of the most-followed urban wildlife stories in upstate New York.

What You Can Watch

Viewers get a rare top-down perspective on every stage of nest life — from incubation and feeding to the young hawks stretching their wings before they fledge. The detailed close-up reveals the texture of the stick nest and the stonework of the archway around it.

A Campus Vantage Point

Perched among the rooftops of the Eastside district, the cam captures the quiet, elevated world these birds of prey inhabit above one of the region's best-known universities.