Welcome to Project Hawk!

I’m Lisa, and Project Hawk is my passion project. It’s a journal, a photo album, an historical record of generations of a family of Swainson’s Hawks in Moh’kinsstis (aka Calgary, Alberta, Canada).

I first committed to documenting our neighbourhood Swainson’s hawks in 2017 after that encounter in the middle of our street. Aside from photos and videos, my “records” in the beginning were on scraps of paper, sticky notes with obscure notations and the worst record-keeping method of all – memory. In August of 2023, I compiled and organized those records to create this online project.

I have amalgamated all videos here on Project Hawk into a YouTube playlist – watch them here. Optionally, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel for more (mostly) bird videos.

Project Hawk is a real life documentation of generations of this raptor family – from my perspective and my camera. Unless otherwise specified, all documentation, images and videos on this site are © Copyright 2003-2024 Lisa Miguez. I respect the privacy of others by being careful not to show any identifying factors such as addresses or other unique landmarks that could divulge a person’s location. However, it is also extremely important to protect the location of the hawks. It’s all about the birds here!

If you’re a bird lover (or even if you’re not!) follow along as I share the story of our local Buteo swainsoni through writing, art (here, here and here), photos, videos and music. Project Hawk is an evolving idea and I’m sure you will love what is yet to come!

Ways to support Project Hawk and my other creative shenanigans:
* SHARE! See QR code below
* buy me a coffee via the Support PH Ko-fi button on this page
* become a Ko-fi member – discounts and exclusive access to products and first-looks at Project Hawk updates
* purchase Project Hawk merchandise
* visit my main site here for more mostly bird-related content and products, including free downloads
* follow me on Mastodon or Instagram

If you love this project, please don’t forget to share Project Hawk!

Thank you!