I would have liked to have published this post last night but I was too sleepy to finish working on my pictures so I left it for this morning.
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I spotted one of the Tompkins Square Park Hawks on a regular First Avenue perch (between 3rd & 4th Streets) while I was en route to Washington Square Park.
It became obvious the bird was Dora because Christo soon joined her and then mated with her:
Heat waves off of buildings made for a wobbly effect on my photos but I kind of like the look.
I found Bobby in the nest soon after I arrived at Washington Square Park:
He hopscotched his way to Broadway.
His next perch was the twisted frame of a deconstructed water tower:
He then flew east to a building along Broadway:
He picked at the plastic wrapping for a bit. It looked like he was trying to gather some for nesting material:
I lost him after that so I returned to the park.
I saw him again one hour later on a southwestern building overlooking the park:
He sat there for 10 minutes before flying high and toward the ConEd tower several blocks northeast:
You can see the ConEd tower from a few vantage points in the park:
There he was!
Heat waves again:
He was looking over Union Square Park. He jumped off the tower and descended in the park’s direction after around 6 minutes.
He then returned to the park 10 minutes later. If he was hunting pigeons along or in Union Square Park, 10 minutes was too short a time to have caught, plucked, then eaten one so if he had eaten a fresh meal it would have been a rat or mouse.
When Bobby returned to the park he had flown over the eastern side then continued traveling east. I waited for him to return to the park grounds but didn’t see him again until about 25 minutes later when I spotted him on a regular northwestern building perch:
I was curious to see what he would do next but a friend had arrived to pick me up and I had been hanging around for two hours in the cold so I was relieved to go for the day.
I keep missing seeing his new mate Sadie lately. I know she’s around though because a fellow Hawk-watcher saw her and Bobby together as recently as yesterday (a few hours before I arrived in the park).