The Red-tailed Hawks of Washington Square Park, NYC… mostly
A friend and I visited Washington Square Park early this morning in the hopes of finding the Hawks before the impending snowstorm. But it had already started to snow by the time we headed out on our trek.
I am pretty sure it was Bobby who I spotted tucked under his favorite Silver Center pediment:
Continue to the full post… “Bobby at the start of a snowstorm – January 21st, 2014”
I spotted a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk when out running a Sunday morning errand today. It could have been the same juvie I’ve been running into lately. It was in the same neighborhood, albeit a few blocks southeast from where I usually see it.
It was relaxing on the edge of a chimney at Essex and Stanton Streets in the Lower East Side:
Continue to the full post… “Sunday errands’ Juvenile Hawk – January 19th, 2014”
Well, sort of. Here’s a fun little tidbit. One of the writers for the TV Show “The Carrie Diaries” (Amy B. Harris) reported on her Twitter account that she had once seen one of the Washington Square Park Red-tailed Hawks eating a pigeon in the park and had used that anecdote as material for the show. She doesn’t make clear when she saw the Hawk (and whether the Hawk she saw might have been Violet, Bobby, Rosie, or a juvenile).
The episode (Hungry like the Wolf), which aired on January 17th, opens with Carrie and a friend watching the Hawk (which turned out to be a Harris’s Hawk on-screen) eating a pigeon before it flies away.
I found out about this episode thanks to an automated email subscription which notifies me when the WSP Hawks are mentioned online.
I’d seen The Carrie Diaries getting filmed close to the park last September but I don’t think I was in the park the day this particular episode’s scene was filmed.
Below are some screen shots I took while doing my (ahem) research on the episode 🙂
Continue to the full post… “Washington Square Park Hawks, TV stars”