Month: July 2017

I visited Washington Square Park to look for the Hawks today now that the recent heat wave has broken. As luck would have it I didn’t see a single Hawk, just like during my last visit a couple of days ago.

We had lots of rain yesterday and this morning so one of the patches of lawn developed a bird bath. This patch develops a puddle every time we have such heavy rain.

A big pigeon took advantage and enjoyed a bath while keeping his eye on me:

Continue to the full post… “King pigeon takes a bath – July 24th, 2017”

I went to the park for about an hour today but missed seeing Hawks however a fellow Hawk-watcher who showed up a few minutes after I left the park saw the parents deal with a falcon and the fledgling fly around the park fountain.

Earlier in the week a couple of Hawk-watchers saw the fledgling perch on the Church cross on different days so that was pretty fun news.

It will be cooling down in the city soon which should provide for more extended Hawkery in the coming days.

Scattering pigeons signaled that one of the Washington Square Park Hawks was in the vicinity so I scanned the trees nearest me and spotted the fledgling on a new tree today. Her branch was rather low over one of the park paths:

Continue to the full post… “Fledgling chases a Blue Jay – July 17th, 2017”