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

Hopscotching Hawk on the ConEd tower, Bobby visits the park – January 26th, 2018

I wasn’t finding any raptors in Washington Square Park at first but did see a Hawk on the ConEd tower in the distance:

I walked around the park and saw a second Hawk with the first one 25 minutes later:

I took my eyes off the tower and noticed the original Hawk was alone again!

45 seconds later Bobby approached the park all tucked in, heading right toward One Fifth:

He caught a thermal and hovered for a few seconds above the building before descending and perching:

The tower Hawk stayed put. It was obviously Sadie and that Bobby had been sitting with her earlier.

Bobby sunned on One Fifth for 20 minutes before zooming northeastward:

Sadie lost some footing a few minutes later:

She composed herself then hopscotched to the eastern side of the tower and back again:


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