I visited Washington Square Park three times over the last several days but didn’t get to see either Red-tailed Hawk until today. I didn’t think to bring binoculars to see Rosie (or Bobby) in the nest (I probably would have been able to see her if I had) and I’m still without the use of my telephoto zoom lens and proper DSLR camera. It hasn’t been easy for me. 🙂
Bobby went about from perch to perch, visited Rosie in the nest, then flew far east out of the park.
I captured the sights on my snappy little point-and-shoot (it’s best to watch the video in HD if possible):
Now that it appears Rosie and Bobby may have at least one egg in their nest since Friday March 14th, I was inspired to calculate how long it may be before the first egg hatches then how long it may be until the first fledging.
It appears that there is now, at the very least, one egg in the Washington Square Park Hawk nest.
Bobby and Rosie are now regularly taking turns sitting in their nest. A fellow Hawk-watcher informed me that she saw the nest-switching behavior quite clearly yesterday after I had already left the park for the day (I didn’t blog about my visit yesterday because there wasn’t much to report save for one time when Bobby brought what looked like a huge piece of paper to the nest).
I was able to take video of Bobby and Rosie switching nest duty this morning. The footage below also includes scenes of Rosie eating and perching in various spots.
You can hear Rosie calling out starting at the 34 second mark.
I cut the audio in a couple of the clips in order to not distract the viewer from having to hear park noise that was occurring during the action.
I have been taking these videos with an older point-and-shoot camera because I won’t be able to use my telephoto zoom lens and DSLR camera for another few weeks. The timing works out alright for me though because I’ll be back to using my zoom lens well before any hatchlings start standing up and exploring the nest and ledge. 🙂 In the meantime I’ll be doing my best to improve my video-taking abilities with what I have now.
