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

Month: July 2014

Fledgling eating a lunchtime pigeon – July 16th, 2014

I was looking for the Washington Square Park Red-tailed Hawks east of the park when I could swear I heard one of the fledglings crying out from the top of the building to my left.

There was a rusty flag pole that was squeaking just ahead of me as well as men working with a squeaky pulley on the next block so I almost began to doubt that I had heard the fledgling.

But then I saw one of the fledglings as it flew from the building to my left, cross over the street, then land on the building to my right. I was relieved I wasn’t going crazy and had only been wanting to hear a fledgling crying.

It went to a pigeon that was lying on a ledge at the back of NYU’s Silver Center building:

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Washington Square Park fledglings cavorting together around the park – July 12th, 2014

The Washington Square Park fledglings found their way back to the park and neighboring blocks after having spent the last week on buildings north and east of the park.

A fellow Hawk-watcher found one of the fledglings perching around the buildings lining the eastern side of the park. It then went into the southeast cluster of park trees.

I arrived in the park half an hour later and got to see some great action over the next 3 ½ hours.

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