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

Bobby just before a cloudy sunset – September 20th, 2012

I had walked around Washington Square Park searching for Bobby and Rosie in all the wrong places apparently for about half an hour. Feeling a little tired, I decided to stop along the path to admire some flowers at the northeastern side of the park.

I noticed a beautiful little warbler (it looked like a Connecticut Warbler) rushing about the flower beds, singing loudly and in a chatty, almost cranky way. I was just about to take its picture when it flew to another bed at the opposite side of the path I was on. I walked over to the new bed and as I was looking for the warbler, I happened to glance up through the trees and at the construction netting atop Two Fifth Avenue (a block away). I saw Bobby sitting atop it! What a fortuitous way to discover him.

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