Month: July 2016

We’ve had a hazy heat wave over the last several days which deterred my Hawking. I tend to get woozy in that kind of weather so apologies for the extended Hawk break.

Fellow Hawk-watchers have seen the Washington Square Park Hawk family doing well.

I saw one of the adult Hawks circling a block south of the park but didn’t have my camera ready at the time. It was gone by the time I got closer.

I caught up with the fledgling this morning on the east side:

Continue to the full post… “Following the fledgling on a steamy day – July 17th, 2016”

It was pretty amusing the way I found the Washington Square Park Hawk fledgling today. I had been looking for him for several minutes with no luck.

I sat down on a bench and noticed the sound of acorns falling on the path behind me. I figured I’d try to take photos of whatever squirrel was causing the racket so I looked into the tree and there was the fledgling!

He was quite snoozy:

Continue to the full post… “Catching up with a sleepy fledgling – July 11th, 2016”

The Washington Square Park fledgling was chock full of energy when a friend and I visited today.

He flew from tree to tree all around the park. He dove to the ground a few times, narrowly missing squirrels. He was getting lots of practice and is sure to catch prey soon if he hasn’t already.

He cried often as he flew about. One of the adult Hawks flew past him and into a tree once. The fledgling followed the adult to the tree before resuming tree-hopping.

Sadie appeared and sat on a southwestern building for a while. We weren’t sure which adult had flown into the tree so I can’t say if we saw Bobby or not.

I took a bunch of photos today but I’m just going to post the ones I liked the most or thought were most interesting:

Continue to the full post… “Following the fledgling all around the park – July 9th, 2016”