Month: July 2017

I have been having poor Hawk-sighting luck so on July 30th I visited the park for a couple of hours in the morning and for about an hour and a half in the evening.

And wouldn’t you know I still had no luck seeing any of the Hawks during either visit. I’m suspecting that it’s “summer excursion” time.

Every summer the adult Hawks tend to take extended visits away from the park in the weeks after their fledgling care-taking duties have been fulfilled. Of course this is pure supposition. The Hawks are always full of surprises! 🙂

Hawkless building perch:

I had all of a five minute Bobby sighting today but it was some of the most fun I’ve had all week considering how bad my Hawking luck has been lately.

I was Hawking by myself so I had to rely on the other park creatures to point out where a Hawk might be if I didn’t spot one myself first.

So today Blue Jays were carrying on loudly in a southern park tree. It’s a tree I’ve seen Bobby in several times in the past so it must be one of his all-time favorites.

Silly me was wiping my forehead with a handkerchief rather than keeping my hands ready on my gear so I missed getting a shot of Bobby swooping out of his tree with his twig. 🙂

But I did catch him as he flew away from me:

Continue to the full post… “Bobby plucks then totes a branch – July 28th, 2017”

Today’s weather was gorgeous so it was a pleasure to look for the Washington Square Park Hawks for two hours but it wasn’t great to not see them yet again. I’m going to have to switch up my Hawking schedule for better luck.A fellow Hawk-watcher saw the fledgling last night and another friend showed me recent video footage a friend of his took of the fledgling sitting on a low fence outside the bathrooms.

I checked on King Pigeon’s puddle from a couple of days ago and saw it had drained quite a bit:

Continue to the full post… “WSP visit and surprise Tompkins Square Hawk sighting – July 26th, 2017”