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

Month: October 2013

Rosie and Bobby share a pigeon meal – October 10th, 2013

One of the regular Washington Square Park dudes that I see hanging out there often saw me looking for the Hawks and approached me smiling and said, “She got the pigeon, huh”. His statement confused me so I replied with something like, “I’m sorry?”. Then the man pointed over to a tree and said, “She caught a pigeon”. It was then that I saw Rosie eating a pigeon on one of the Hawks’ dining table branches so I thanked the man and stepped a little closer so I could watch her:

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Bobby and Rosie visiting both nest sites recently- October 8th, 2013

I had no luck seeing Rosie and Bobby when I looked for them on Thursday the 3rd, Monday the 7th, and today. But a fellow Hawk-watcher saw them doing well on Saturday and Sunday (when I was out of town).

On Sunday they were seen visiting both their Bobst Library nest and their secondary site at the NYU Shimkin Hall window ledges I’ve mentioned/photographed before. Shimkin is one building east of Bobst Library. It is diagonal from the southeast corner of Washington Square Park.

They have been bringing nesting material to various window ledges at Shimkin since July/August 2012 and so far they don’t seem to have built anything close to the fine nest at Bobst.

Photo of the Bobst Library nest I took on Monday the 7th:

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Weekend at Cape May

A friend and I spent the weekend in Cape May, New Jersey in the hopes of seeing huge amounts of Red-tailed Hawks, Bald Eagles, and Ospreys pass by/rest as they made their way south.

Although calendar-wise we went at a great time, there were none of these birds to be seen en masse. We overheard one park guide tell a group that the winds that weekend, unfortunately, didn’t make it conducive for migration. Our trip was a bust in that regard but the sights of other birds, the beautiful city and landscapes of Cape May, and the Atlantic Ocean well made up for it.

Saturday sights:

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