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

Month: November 2012

Hello from Melbourne, Australia – November 12th, 2012

I’m in the first of two legs of my vacation. The first leg is Melbourne, Australia. My second leg (and ultimate destination) is the Australian island of Tasmania, where I’ll be a member of a small, guided birding tour. We’ll be trekking primarily around Tasmania’s forest reserves and bodies of water.

It was a six hour flight from NYC to LA, a two hour layover, then a fifteen hour flight from LA to Melbourne. I got off the plane ten hours ago and am doing alright jet lag-wise so far. Melbourne is currently 16 hours ahead of NY time.

This is actually my fourth visit to Australia but first time this far south. I adore the country’s more laid-back attitude, remoteness, and beautiful natural world. When I heard about this birding tour I knew I had to come!

View outside my hotel window (South Yarra neighborhood):

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Will send my regards from the other side of the world soon – November 10th, 2012

I’m off soon to fly to my vacation destination on the other side of the world today. “Which” side of the world will be revealed in a few days! If everything goes right and I get the time, I should be posting photos of the wonderful things I see by Tuesday night (EST).

This is my first ‘real’ vacation in a couple of years (last year’s vacation was spent in Washington Square Park with the Hawks!) so I’m pretty excited for the change in scenery although I will especially miss Bobby and Rosie a whole lot. 🙂


Rosie, Bobby, and two cold day juveniles – November 4th, 2012

Hawk-watchers in Washington Square Park let me know a juvenile (or two!) were seen in the park so I rushed over a little earlier than I had planned. How could I pass up the chance to see them as soon as I could?

Rosie was flying above the eastern side of the park when I got there. She perched on one of the NYU Silver Center flag poles:

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