Month: January 2012

Thanks once again to JumpFlapper for providing these regular Washington Square Park hawk reports!

Tuesday: Rosie was seen hunting then eating a rat in the afternoon. She disappeared from the park for a little while until she was spotted on 2 Fifth Ave (one of the apartment buildings overlooking the park from the north). She sat for a while before flying further north and perching on scaffolding along the west side of Fifth Avenue. She flew off then appeared a couple of blocks east of the park. Rosie flew away and was not seen again the rest of the day. Bobby appeared just after 5:00PM when en route to the Red Roost Inn. He tucked in and stayed there for the evening.

Continue to the full post… “Hawk report from the last couple of days”

When I was a block from Washington Square Park (at West 4th between Greene and Mercer Streets), I heard a peregrine falcon “yelling” from close-by overhead. I looked up and within a couple of seconds the peregrine and one of the red-tailed hawks were flying overhead. The peregrine was attacking the hawk, hitting its feet during a couple of flybys.

The hawk was uninjured but was obviously annoyed by the falcon since it was trying to fly away from it yet the peregrine came after it a couple of times. The hawk landed on the roof of one of the east-side buildings overlooking the park. The peregrine then left the hawk alone and flew away. I didn’t have my camera and lens assembled yet so wasn’t able to capture the scene. Once I was set up, my first photo was of the peregrine on its regular post atop NYU housing a block south of the park:

Continue to the full post… “Sunday hawk visit with Bobby & Rosie – January 22, 2012”

We finally got a couple of inches of snow:

Continue to the full post… “Rosie and Bobby’s bond grows – January 21, 2012”