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It had been a couple of days since I visited Washington Square Park so I was surprised and delighted to find the fledgling in the same area I found her last time. The only difference being she was one tree over:

Continue to the full post… “Fledgling practices prey-diving – June 28th, 2017”

Today’s visit was one of those ultra mellow ones where the Washington Square Park Hawks just sit in place. It made it easy to keep my eye on them because I had all three of them in my sight line for a while.

I found the fledgling about 10 minutes after I arrived. She was quite high up in a tree. She spent the entire two hours in the same section of the tree. She did have a few adventures in between bouts of preening and stretching: A couple of squirrels got close to her branch so she spread her wings a bit to scare them off and a Blue Jay squawked at her but didn’t dive-bomb her this time.

Continue to the full post… “Fledgling masters the art of tree preening – June 26th, 2017”

It took me half an hour of searching among the trees to find the Washington Square Park fledgling today. A fellow Hawk-watcher had seen her several minutes earlier but the little Hawk moved trees by the time I arrived.

I spotted one of the adults on the northwest corner of One Fifth easily enough but the fledgling was quite camouflaged:

Continue to the full post… “Mellow, zesty, mellow visit with the fledgling – June 25th, 2017”