Red-tailed Hawk landing on nest, Bobst Library, NYU, New York City

Month: August 2011

Hawkless and more than just a little pensive – August 25, 2011

Spending about two hours a night in Washington Square Park with no hawks in sight for days and days got me down today. I haven’t been posting as often lately because I couldn’t think of yet another way to write, “No hawks seen today”. But I’m the type of person who bounces back rather quickly so over the weekend I’ll work on uploading some nice Pipness I hadn’t posted before.

It became a gorgeous evening today after some earlier rain showers:

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June 19 Pip photos – blast from the past

Since I missed seeing any hawks today in Washington Square Park (I had missed a sighting of two hawks circling above the park by only half an hour!), true to my word, below are photos of Pip I hadn’t yet posted before. These photos are from a visit on June 19th, four days before she fledged. They aren’t particularly remarkable but are fun to share with you!! What I may end up doing is post such “bonus footage” beginning June 19th and on. I think the 19th was the day I first used my better camera (the one I use now) so any photos I post from that day on would be much better quality than any taken days beforehand.

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