The Raptor Trail is a 1.3 mile long, wide, moderate difficulty trail that is accessible from the Baywoods Trail, the Songbird Trail, the picnic area, and from the main park road north of the contact station. It goes around the cabin area and like the Songbird Trail follows the edges of large fields of tall grasses and wildflowers where many birds, such as the red winged blackbird, may be spotted. Trail users are reminded to be courteous of the private property that abuts portions of this trail.
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"We actually do not know. Our only access to see in the nest is the camera feed which is not working. We are expecting a part Tuesday that hopefully will solve the problem."
"No the ospreys are fine but we are having a video feed issue that is stumping all of our technical experts. We are working as fast as possible to restore the feed. Our apologies!"
"When my husband and I were engaged, we took our soon to be "blended" family to Hungry Mother State Park for our first attempt at bringing together our three girls. He has two and I have one. One morning we decided to take the oldest daughter for a hike on Molly's Knob. We did the entire trail and the views were magnificent. More importantly I was able to start that relationship with the oldest daughter that I hold dear twenty-one years later. Thank you Hungry Mother State Park for a memory we'll…"