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

Month: August 2014

WSP Hawk and sleepy Peregrine – August 3rd, 2014

I looked for the Washington Square Park (WSP) Red-tailed Hawks yesterday afternoon but never found any.

A fellow Hawk-watcher saw one of the fledglings and one of the adults outside Union Square Park earlier this morning. Union Square Park is 8 blocks northeast of Washington Square Park.

I hopped on the subway and headed to Union Square Park as fast as I could but unfortunately missed seeing the Hawks by a few minutes.

I meandered south to WSP to look for the Hawks there.

I saw one on a building under construction as I walked on West 3rd Street (a block south of the park):

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Scavengers eat the Peregrine Falcon’s stash – August 1st, 2014

At 7:43 this morning I heard my local Peregrine Falcon crying out angrily/threateningly. It sounded like a pretty awful commotion so I grabbed my camera and raced to my kitchen window to see what the fuss was all about.

I saw what looked like a Raven on the Falcon’s regular perch. It was pecking at food the Falcon had stored up there:

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