Month: August 2012

Thanks to having a vacation day today, I was incredibly lucky to be able to spend four hours with one of the Washington Square Park fledglings. I say it was lucky because sightings of them have been fewer and far between and I was starting to believe they might have left the area already.

Seeing one of the fledglings yesterday after nine days of no other sighting changed all that.

I followed my feet and found one of the babies high in a tree at the western side of the park:

Continue to the full post… “Fledgling hang out, WSP – August 9th, 2012”

Continue to the full post… “Washington Square Park fledgling sighting! August 8th, 2012”

It had been a while since I had a chance to visit Central Park and look for the Red-tailed Hawk that resides by the southeastern corner of the park. I saw it yesterday during my work lunch hour.The Hawk was flying above Grand Army Plaza as usual.

Flying near what looked like a Peregrine Falcon or Kestrel:

Continue to the full post… “Southeastern Central Park Hawk from August 6th, 2012”