The Red-tailed Hawks of Washington Square Park, NYC… mostly
A fellow Hawk-watcher has seen the fledgling over the last few days flying around and regularly perching on the Judson Memorial Church cross.
The cross is a high perch overlooking the park so it makes sense the fledgling is using it to look over the domain but we find it endearing that he’s perching there since it’s the adult Hawks’ regular perch and somehow shows how grown up the fledgling is getting.
I’ll be back to Hawking soon!
Photo from June 30th
A couple of fellow Hawk-watchers have seen the Washington Square Park fledgling dive toward prey on the ground over the last few days.
Today was the first day I got to see him do the same. He didn’t catch any of the critters but he was getting great practice in. He doesn’t seem to need Bobby to show him the ropes (unlike Pip who needed to be trained). No, this fledgling has the killer instinct all wrapped up.
I saw what appeared to be graffiti on the park arch (boo!):
Continue to the full post… “Fledgling dives toward prey on the ground – July 5th, 2016”
I went to bed early last night so apologies for getting this post out a day late. 🙂
I spent a couple of hours following the Washington Square Park Red-tailed Hawk fledgling around yesterday morning.
I heard the fledgling crying over and over so I followed its sounds and spotted it on the park arch:
