The Red-tailed Hawks of Washington Square Park, NYC… mostly
Urban Parks Ranger Rob Mastrianni provided me with an update on the dead juvenile Red-tailed Hawk recently found on 4th Avenue and 9th Street.
The juvenile had died from blunt force trauma, likely from a collision.
There is no doubt in my mind that the juvenile had crashed into the new 13 story glass-covered office tower at 51 Astor Place.
Image of the building, courtesy of the 51 Astor Place website:
Continue to the full post… “Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk necropsy results – August 9th, 2015”
Today’s Washington Square Park visit lasted about 2 ½ hours. In that time we watched Sadie relax on one building for roughly an hour and a half and Bobby move about from perch to perch before settling onto NYU’s Education Building.
Sadie:
Continue to the full post… “Sunbathy, resty Washington Square Park Red-tails – August 8th, 2015”
The adult Washington Square Park Red-tailed Hawks have been seen perched atop a building a few blocks north of the park lately so that was the first place a fellow Hawk-watcher and I checked today.
There were no Hawks there so we made our way to the park.
I glanced over in time to see,through a gap between two buildings,one of the adult Hawks land on the NYU Education building flagpole.
The lighting and distance were not helpful for identification but I believe the Hawk that was on the flagpole was Bobby.
Continue to the full post… “Lengthy Hawk nest visit – August 6th, 2015”