Month: August 2014

I’ve visited Washington Square Park and the Cable Building fire escape a couple of times over the last few days but did not get to see either Rosie or Bobby (or either fledgling for that matter).

A fellow Hawk-watcher did see one of the Hawks in the Bobst Library nest last week which I thought was great to hear.

The fire escape has a lot more rope in it now:

I looked for Rosie and Bobby (and the fledglings on the off-chance they were still around) at Washington Square Park, surrounding blocks, and at the fire escape they’ve been visiting lately but did not see them yesterday.

A couple of fellow Hawk-watchers let me know they saw Rosie and Bobby perched on a building overlooking the eastern border of Washington Square Park this morning and bringing sticks to the fire escape this afternoon.

It’s still too early to tell if Rosie and Bobby are going to use the new fire escape location for next spring’s brood but their activity today was a real eyebrow raiser.

The ‘nest’ has a lot more material on it since the last time I saw it and Rosie went through great efforts to bring a new and heavy piece to it today. Bobby showed up and help fortify and build up the nest.

Rosie:

Continue to the full post… “Bobby and Rosie work on the fire escape nest – August 19th, 2014”