I was watching the live NYU Hawk cam this morning and saw Sadie bring what looked like a freshly-captured squirrel to the nest. She fed some of it to the babies.
I visited Washington Square Park a couple of hours later and saw her bring the same squirrel to and from the nest multiple times during my visit.
She was first on the Silver Center building when I arrived:
She jumped off her perch 10 minutes later, retrieved the squirrel, then brought it to the nest within a minute:
An added treat to my park visits now is that I can see the babies:
It looked like Sadie was feeding more of the squirrel to the kids.
Bobby circled overhead then landed on one of the Silver Center flag poles:
Sadie took the squirrel out of the nest an hour later:
She flew right above the low buildings along the eastern side of the park. I think she landed on one of them but I couldn’t see exactly where. NYU staffers have told me in the past that one of the building tops there was chock full of stashed kills.
Pollen fell for a minute, looking like light snow fall:
One of the Hawks brought the squirrel to the nest 9 minutes later:
The other Hawk flew in a couple of minutes afterward.
Bobby then flew out:
It was time for me to go. I left with Bobby back on the Silver Center flag pole:
