Month: July 2012

Because we’re still in the midst of a heat wave and the air quality in the city is poor (at least to me), I did not venture to Washington Square Park on the 5th and could only manage being in the park for about an hour and fifteen minutes on the 6th. But the action I saw during my brief stay was great!

I saw Rosie fly to a branch in the distance so that’s where my Hawking began.

She was nicely hidden:

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I spent a little over three hours in Washington Square Park with the Hawk family today. The temperature reached a muggy 92 degrees and oh boy could you feel the heat. The juveniles were very active though during the earlier part of the day, as usual.

The juveniles did lots of flying around the western side of the park. They play-crashed into each other, flew together, perched together, and play-fought together. Rosie was the main parent on the scene. She hunted a little bit but I did not see her catch anything. Bobby stopped by for a little while as well.

The two fledglings were on a lawn together by the western border of the park. One of the fledglings:

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