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

Brief double day Hawk sightings – January 10th & 11th, 2020

Double post time. I visited Washington Square Park yesterday and today but only saw the Hawks for a few minutes each day. Which is fine; any sighting is welcome.

January 10th:

I had no luck finding either Red-tailed Hawk at first despite some extensive searching.

I was at the tail end of my outing when I saw one of the Hawks atop the Con Edison tower:

It wasn’t up there a few minutes beforehand. I could only stick around for a few more minutes so I left not long after.

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January 11th:

The park was holding its annual Mulchfest today (where locals drop off their Christmas trees for mulching):

“Dover” the pigeon briefly walked alongside another black and white pigeon (Dover’s in the back):

A couple of pigeon photos in an NYU window caught me by surprise; I thought it was a pic of a fledgling at first:

Juno showed up. He had freshly-landed atop One Fifth Avenue:

Off after a minute:

He flew low over the park square. Sadie then appeared out of nowhere. The Hawks followed each other as they glided south out of the park.

I went southward to look for them but did not discover where they went.

A Cooper’s Hawk scared pigeons that live in the NYU housing courtyard:


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