I saw the Washington Square Park Red-tailed Hawks for less than an hour today but it was great to see them doing well.
Sadie was on her northwest building perch:
I heard Blue Jays going nuts in one area of trees so I headed over to see if Bobby was there. I ran into a park friend who knows the Hawks well and he remarked he thought one of the Hawks might be in those trees too so I had a good feeling about it.
Not five seconds after I left my friend did I see Bobby fly through the trees and out of the park. I raised my camera and fired but didn’t get a pic of him. 🙂
I did see him circling northwest of the park though:
I lost sight of him so I returned to the park where I saw him now on his One Fifth Avenue perch:
Sadie was gone from her building at this point.
He flew eastward after 15 minutes:
I saw him as a bitty speck far east from the park a minute later. I had to run so I gave up looking for either Hawk not long after.
A fellow Hawk-watcher did see Sadie north of the park (on the Cardozo Law School Building) earlier the evening.