The Red-tailed Hawks of Washington Square Park, NYC… mostly
A fellow Hawk-watcher has seen both Washington Square Park Red-tailed Hawks over the last few days.
They saw Sadie sitting at her regular NYU Law School dorm ladder perch earlier this morning.
Mama Sadie Hawk was the first Hawk I saw when I was at the park today. She flew right to the new NYU Silver Center water tower. This building is along the eastern side of the park:
I saw Sadie briefly on Thursday the 20th and today.
On the 20th I first spotted her circling above the street a couple of blocks north of Washington Square Park:
Continue to the full post… “Two days of brief Sadie sightings – October 20th & 24th”
I spent about an hour and a half looking for the Washington Square Park Red-tailed Hawks today.
I took a photo of the Con Ed tower, a regular Hawk perch, but didn’t see a Hawk on the tippy top so I kept moving. I had a nagging feeling I should take a look at the base of the tower as well but ignored myself if you know what I mean.
Well wouldn’t you know, when I looked at my tower photo at home I scrolled down to see one of the Hawks sitting at the base of the tower, dazzling in the sunlight:
Continue to the full post… “Con Edison tower Red-tailed Hawk – October 17th, 2016”