Thanks ,Roger, for keeping us informed w/ good news and the infrequent hopelessness of a loss of life of a little hawk ,created and hatched to soar the skies and bring us more happiness w/ a nest and family of his own in a later year.

Washington Square Park uses a combination of snap traps and dry ice to smother rats in their burrows. Adult Hawks are absolutely susceptible to rodenticide. It is a little bit of comfort that the WSP adults eat a lot of pigeons and also vermin from WSP. But they do eat rats outside the park on occasion.

So sad. What are the alternatives to rodenticide? Are adults susceptible, too? I don’t live in the city. (And we use a cat.)

There isn’t rodenticide set out in the parks when Hawks are nesting but neighboring buildings continue to use it.

Thanks for your support, Shelly.

It’s heartbreaking and terrible. And totally avoidable which is all the more frustrating.