At long last, I and a few other hawk-watchers saw Bobby tonight! Pipsters had reported seeing a hawk or two over the last several days but they weren’t able to photograph them in time and the sightings were quite brief, unfortunately. But tonight was fantastic since we got to see Bobby flying, perching, and hunting for about an hour and a half.I first spotted Bobby as he flew from building to building at the Northeastern side of Washington Square Park. I lost sight of him for a minute until I saw him fly from the park to a flagpole atop an NYU building at the Southeastern corner of the park. He sat perched on that flagpole for about half an hour then on the next building’s flagpole.After sitting on this new flagpole for only half a minute, he dove into the park for some fine hunting for about forty minutes. He caught a small mouse and ate it whole in one swallow. He continued to fly from tree to tree then from building to building again until he disappeared out of sight while turning right onto Broadway. By then it was too dark to photograph anyway so I went home.
