Comments on: Hawk visits Washington Square, eats a rat – January 6th, 2020

By: Roger_Paw

Roger_Paw — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 21:08:04 +0000

In reply to Mary Rose Webster. Thank you! I'm glad you liked them.

By: Mary Rose Webster

Mary Rose Webster — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 20:38:11 +0000

Thank you and congratulations on some amazng photographs.

By: Roger_Paw

Roger_Paw — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 15:31:10 +0000

In reply to Karen M.

Thank you, Karen!

The cam is still live by the way. You can watch it anytime here: https://rogerpaw.com/live-nyu-hawk-nest-cam/

By: Karen M

Karen M — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 15:06:37 +0000

Awesome, post as always. I had set it aside to read at a more convenient time – which is just now, 1/17 ~10:00 a.m.! I just read your post about finding the band number and determining where it was placed.

I’m sure I speak for us all, when I say how thankful we are to you and all your excellent pictures. You are out in all kinds of weather, for hours at a time. Thank you!

Here’s to the new year of hopefully, new hawklets – I know that’s not their name – eyass or something. Everything I know about hawks, I’ve pretty much learned here!

I hope NYU leaves the camera running again.

By: Roger_Paw

Roger_Paw — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 03:22:37 +0000

In reply to Rena Mueller. Happy New Year to you, Rena!

By: Rena Mueller

Rena Mueller — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 02:51:05 +0000

Happy New Year to all, but especially to Roger-Paw! What a wonderful series for the New Year…a tonic for these trying times.

By: Roger_Paw

Roger_Paw — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:06:17 +0000

In reply to Peggy. Thank you! The resident Hawks will tolerate a visitor for a couple of days before they'll drive them out. I don't think I've ever seen a visitor last more than four days without getting hassled and eventually kicked out.

By: Roger_Paw

Roger_Paw — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:05:13 +0000

In reply to Jeanne. I too thought it might be Bobby but I realized it was a stranger Hawk when I got closer to it. I agree; it seemed like a younger Hawk to me as well.

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 16:28:02 +0000

Does the difficulty in catching a squirrel meal , give rise to the question of this being an adolescent hawk vrs a more successful food seeking adult hawk?
How grand the hawk appears in your ~ 16/th frame.
My first thought or maybe a hope…”Bobby had been captured ,banded and returned to WSP…but, even to my untrained eye, this is a younger and smaller hawk…life goes on, does it not?
Thanks for your tramping in the cold to capture such fascinating pictures…I did not know squirrels built nests in the V neck of branches of a tree…always thought , they burrowed inside the tree trunk itself.
Fascinating!

By: Peggy

Peggy — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 16:04:21 +0000

Agree with Susan: this post is definitely a 5-star post! And good for you for getting the band number and figuring out what kind of band it is. Also interesting that the resident WSP hawks overlooked this visitor.