The Red-tailed Hawks of Washington Square Park, NYC… mostly
I arrived at Washington Square Park around 3:15PM on Saturday. The nest site looking good with Sexton’s framed items lined tightly in a row against the window so the birds don’t get so spooked by inside activity:
Continue to the full post… “Rosie’s dinner during her nest break – March 23rd, 2013”
12:03PM. I took the following screen shot of Rosie getting off the nest just a minute ago, exposing the three eggs. Bobby is on the left, Rosie on the right moments before she flew off the nest for a break. Bobby then settled onto the eggs to incubate.
This post contains photos I took over the last two days so prepare for an image-heavy account.
I saw the Plaza Male and Octavia (Pale Male’s mate) mating yesterday and today. I had assumed that since she was laying and incubating Pale Male’s egg(s?), that her time copulating with the Plaza Male was over but that is not the case.
March 20th, 2013:
The first Red-tailed Hawk I saw was the Plaza Male carrying a twig while circling and soaring over Central Park’s Grand Army Plaza:
