Month: July 2011

Footage taken of Bobby hunting in the trees of Washington Square Park on July 3rd, 2011.

Some smaller birds were not pleased with his presence and dive-bombed him in an attempt to bully him away from their nest or territory.

It was a rainy, drizzly, gray day most of today. A bunch of us sat or stood around and chatted as we watched Bobby and Violet sit on the same fence for hours today. For a ‘normal’ non hawk-obsessed person, that may have seemed like a dull way to spend a Sunday in New York City but we remarked to each other that watching the two parents sit as they were was very zen and meditative and soothing. If only you were there to see Bobby’s and Violet’s dark forms seated high above against a gray, drizzly sky.

However, the energy level picked up tremendously later in the day around sunset when Bobby flew to the far side of the park to hunt from tree to tree, grass nook to grass nook. We followed him as he hunted until we lost sight of him about an hour later. He was majestic and hugely impressive. He was almost constantly harassed by diving birds chattering away at him. I’ll eventually upload the video footage of him hunting in a later post.

Continue to the full post… “No Pip but lots of Violet & Bobby – Sunday, July 3, 2011”

It was a slow hawk-watching day until Bobby brought a pigeon to Violet and Pip to eat. Each bird had a turn eating the pigeon.

In this video, Pip flies to the dinner table and meekly approaches Violet for a shot at some of the food. You could surmise that Pip was playing up her ‘baby’ position as a way to inspire Violet to beak-feed her (which she did).