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

Month: June 2014

Sole fledgling on a hot, muggy day – June 17th, 2014

A heat wave arrived in New York City today. It won’t cool down for another couple of days.

A fellow Hawk-watcher saw one of the fledglings eating atop a high building perch earlier this morning. The same friend saw both fledglings hanging out together last night.

I visited Washington Square Park a bit later than I had hoped this morning so I got stuck in some pretty hot and humid weather so I didn’t stay too long.

I got to see one of the fledglings relaxing and preening atop an NYU Silver Center water tower:

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Rosie reunites with her returned fledgling – June 11th, 2014

A friend had seen Dell the returned fledgling in his tree after I had left Washington Square Park last night but did not see him in his tree when walking through this morning so I knew I had a search challenge ahead of me today.

As mentioned in my last post, the name Dell was bequeathed to the fledgling by Cathy Horvath of WINORR since it had been found perched on a computer monitor in one of NYU’s classrooms a few days ago.

I came upon this mess of a rat trap soon after arriving in the park:

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