The Red-tailed Hawks of Washington Square Park, NYC… mostly
I got backlogged with photos so this post is slightly overdue.
I checked in on the Tompkins Square Park hawk activity before walking to Washington Square Park on the 2nd to check on its own hawks. As I was walking along Avenue A and 7th Street, I spotted two hawks flying in the distance, coming in my direction. They were flying rather low above the buildings lining the south side of Tompkins Square Park:
Continue to the full post… “Tompkins Square Park red-tailed hawks from January 2, 2012”
A few intrepid hawk-watchers braved the cold and the wind a few hours yesterday to see what the Washington Square Park red-tailed hawks were up to.
JumpFlapper wrote to me with these details from her report:
I stopped by Washington Square Park for twenty minutes between doing much-needed and overdue chores. Luckily, as a hawk-watcher had just informed me, Rosie was on her way to the side of the park I was entering. She landed in a tree not far from me:
Continue to the full post… “Brief interlude with Rosie – January 2, 2012”