The Red-tailed Hawks of Washington Square Park, NYC… mostly
I was only able to spend an hour at Washington Square Park to check on the Hawk family this morning. I saw three out of the four Hawks. Bobby and Sadie were looking over the fledgling that I had last seen on a window sill.
Neither I nor another Hawk-watcher who was in the park earlier than me saw the other fledgling.
Bobby:
I saw one of the fledglings’ tail feathers sticking out over a building ledge as soon as I arrived at Washington Square Park this morning:
Continue to the full post… “Second Hawk baby fledged this morning – June 15th, 2015”
It’s 10:00PM as I type this update. I was home from this morning’s Hawking when I got the call around 5:00PM that one of the Hawk babies had fledged so I rushed back to the park.
The fledgling was hanging out on Bobst Library roof when I arrived. It walked, ran, and exercised its wings a bit during the 2 hours it was on the roof. It then flew to Silver and then to the building across the street from Silver.
The baby that was still in the nest did a lot of jump-flapping and flying on the ledge but didn’t leave tonight.
I never saw the other Hawk baby this morning during my earlier visit so a fellow Hawk-watcher and I now think the fledgling had left the nest either before we got to the park this morning or late yesterday after we had left (and that to think the amorphous dark shape seen further back on the ledge this morning as the other baby was a mistake).
There was lots of action when I returned to the park this afternoon. I’ll go through my photos and post them in the morning so stay tuned for an update to this post.
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Morning update. I’m going to include precise timestamps in order to better show how things transpired last night.
Bobby brought food to the nestling at 5:44PM:
