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

3rd egg for the Washington Square Park Hawks – March 30th, 2018

It was right around 11:40AM this morning when I noticed Sadie behaving as though she were about to lay another egg.

She hunched above the other two eggs, started to pant, and circle around as if trying to get into a comfortable position in the nest. Her body subtly undulated several times and then she rested on the nest. It looked very much like the egg was laid at 11:44AM.

She took a little nap and finally stood up 12:17PM to reveal all three eggs on the live Nest Cam. The new egg is the one on the left:


She rolled all three eggs underneath her then rested on them to incubate.

The first egg was laid on March 24th and the second one on March 27th.

If all three eggs hatch and the babes grow nice and strong and fledge as usual, we are going to have quite the busy summer following the youngsters around the park!

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Updated: Bobby brought a new rope to the nest and then Sadie left the nest for a break. The screenshot below is of Bobby standing next to the three eggs right before lying down to incubate them at 1:01PM:

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