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

Bobby & Violet visited the nest today! August 11, 2011

It was a big day in our little hawk world today. Bobby and Violet returned to their nest at Bobst library at NYU for a short while early this afternoon. It was the first confirmed sighting of Violet since July 18th (the last previously-known footage of her was in my post here). No one in our large circle of Pipsters had a confirmed sighting of Violet until today. I checked the nest cam and saw who I later discovered to be Violet sitting in the nest. I took the screen shot below as quickly as I could:

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No hawks for me August 8, 2011

Although a couple of other hawk-watchers were lucky enough to report that they saw a hawk by Washington Square Park last night, I was not (despite looking in and between both Washington Square Park and Union Square Park for at least two and a half hours last night). Oh well! I won’t be able to go out hawk-hunting again until at least Wednesday night so I hope you stay tuned.. 🙂