I saw a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk on 1st Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues (the same area I’ve seen a juvenile hanging out on occasion):
It disappeared when I was glanced down to check my camera settings.
I then went to Washington Square Park.
A fellow Hawk-watcher was already in the park, watching Bobby sit at the Hangman’s Elm. I got to see him there for several minutes before he then hopped from tree to tree:
He flew from the west to the east side of the park:
Looking down at pigeons he scared up:
On NYU’s Silver Center:
Soaring across the northern border of the park:
Rosie showed up and circled in the sky with him. They were following pigeons that were trying to get away from them.
Rosie wound up in the nest:
She flew from the nest to the back of Kimmel just as she did on the 4th:
She eventually flew past the nest, to Shimkin (which neighbors the nest’s building), picked up some nesting material stashed there, then brought it to the nest:
She flew to a west side tree:
She was watching the pigeons that gathered by the square from time to time.
She hopped off her tree and dove to one:
She didn’t catch anything so she continued her flight.
Air gun?
Sitting in a tree at the southern edge of the park (in front of Kimmel):
She flew south out of the park:
She sat on a tree at the patch of land a block south of the park (at LaGuardia Place and 3rd Street). I had photographed her hunting from there February 18th, 2012.
Scrunch and spring:
She flew back to the park.
My friend and I looked for her but couldn’t find her.