Month: December 2011

You read that correctly; Bobby and Violet were seen in the nest today! Here’s the report from hawk-watcher:“I just got back from the park. At 4:00 I saw Bobby and Violet flying around by the church. Bobby landed by the cross and Violet went to the nest. Within a minute, Bobby joined her.“Then they both flew to the west side of the park on two separate trees.“Violet is on the left and Bobby high up on the right tree. Then Bobby flew to the roost where they sleep and Violet followed about 7 minutes later. By this time it was pretty dark but you can see them on their separate perches.”

Bobby is on the top rung, Violet on the lower one:

Thank you JumpFlapper for your reports and for my other (anonymous) friend’s illustrative photos!

As soon as I walked toward Central Park during lunch today I saw one of my office’s local red-tailed hawks swoop off Bergdorf Goodman department store in hot pursuit of pigeons. It soared and hunted above The Plaza Hotel, Bergdorf’s, and the area where horse-drawn carriage riders mount and dismount across the street.

I did not see it catch anything or make a true effort to do so. It seemed to be having a fine time soaring in the open sky rather than dive at any creature for a meal. I lost track of it when it soared a final time over the Plaza. The pigeons were understandably nervous and were flying in random, panicked patterns.

First photo I could snap:

Continue to the full post… “Lunching with Central Park red-tailed hawk – December 16, 2011”

There were no hawks reported seen at the Red Roost Inn the last two nights. Thanks go to JumpFlapper for the report!