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

Month: April 2012

Southeastern Central Park Red-tailed Hawk Update – April 27th, 2012

I haven’t written about the Southeastern Central Park hawk in a while. There are a few reasons why.

The main hawk I’d been following the last few months seemed to have lost its partner. I would see the two hawks flying or perching around Central Park’s Grand Army Plaza together and fortifying a nest together as early as February.

One of the pair disappeared in March and I feared it was one of the hawks found dead in a recent spate of hawk deaths in the city.

Over the last several weeks I wasn’t able to visit the park during lunch as often as I wanted and so my hawk sightings decreased greatly.

The conference room that overlooks the Crown Building nest is undergoing renovation.

Whenever I did see the remaining hawk it was either flying solo, briefly flying around with another hawk, or just above the trees I happened to be under (making for difficult photography). I’ve been meaning to share whatever pictures I did take but never got around to doing so.

On Friday I finally got to see the hawk for an extended amount of time and take decent enough photos to share. I heard it cry out, “Khreeeeee” a few times while flying over the trees but I didn’t see it.

It was only when I was on the bridge at the park pond that I saw it swooping by the trees along 59th Street toward the flocks of pigeons that inhabit Grand Army Plaza.

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Rosie enduring a Mockingbird “attack” – April 27th, 2012

To no avail, a poor little Mockingbird tried to bully Rosie into leaving her perch. It might have been the same Mockingbird I saw harass her on April 25th. It dive-bombed her repeatedly but Rosie acted as if she hardly even felt it. It looked like the Mockingbird was hitting her as hard as a crumpled paper ball would hit your arm.

Rosie was sitting on one of her favorite terrace perches at Two Fifth Avenue (overlooking the northern side of Washington Square Park). She wasn’t going anywhere any time soon.

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