Over the course of two hours today I saw an adult Cooper’s Hawk, Bobby and Sadie, and the juvenile Cooper’s Hawk who’s been hanging out in the park lately. It was quite the Hawk fest!
There was a lot of perch-hopping and flying about between the two adult Red-tails.
Bobby was on One Fifth as soon as I arrived in the park:
Either a Cooper’s or Sharp-shinned Hawk flew overhead (they’re notoriously difficult to distinguish from one another).
I heard a Hawk screaming behind it. It was Sadie screaming as she chased the Hawk out of the park:
Sadie soon flew northeast from the park. You can see the ConEd tower in the distance:
She came back to the park and landed on the southwestern corner building:
Bobby jumped off One Fifth and flew south of the park:
Sadie:
Bobby back on One Fifth:
I was pretty excited when the juvenile Cooper’s Hawk landed in the same tree as it did when I first saw it three days ago.
Bobby left One Fifth and flew south of the park.
The Cooper’s Hawk settled down on its branch.
Sadie flying to One Fifth:
Bobby immediately joined her:
The Cooper’s Hawk dove into the western trees 13 minutes after landing in its first tree:
Bobby flew off One Fifth.
Sadie peeking around:
I initially lost the Cooper’s Hawk but saw it again 45 minutes later as it chased park pigeons. It flew to the eastern trees where I found it in view of One Fifth:
It sat for 10 minutes before diving to pigeons just north of the park:
One of the adult Hawks flew over the east side of the park as I was leaving for the day:
