Red-tailed Hawk landing on nest, Bobst Library, NYU, New York City

Sparrow snack – June 17th, 2017

A fellow Hawk-watcher alerted me last night that the Washington Square Park fledgling had been spotted on the back of the southwestern corner building so we focused our Hawking in the western side of the park today.

The fledgling was being naughty though and didn’t show her pretty face during our visit.

However the parents were full of activity flying about.

Bobby and Sadie flew around the northwestern buildings early on. Bobby on Two Fifth Avenue:

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Fledgling has a meal, all Hawks seen – June 15th, 2017

The heat wave has broken and today’s weather was quite lovely. All three Washington Square Park Hawks were seen close by each other and I saw the fledgling have a meal on NYU’s Silver Center.

A fellow Hawk-watcher spotted the fledgling on Silver earlier in the morning so I had a general idea where to look.

Bobby was the first Hawk I saw today. He was on One Fifth Avenue. He was soon harassed by a Mockingbird:

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