The Red-tailed Hawks of Washington Square Park, NYC… mostly
I was a couple of blocks northeast of Washington Square Park when I heard Blue Jays going nuts either in or right outside the park.
Both adult Hawks were on the east side flag poles when I arrived at the park grounds.
Sadie:
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We finally got a break from days of rain so I took my long-awaited chance to visit the Washington Square Park Hawks.
Bobby was on the old cross tower down the street from the nest:
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As seen yesterday in my previous post, a pigeon that Bobby had caught and delivered to the nest had a band around one of its legs.
Sadie fed the body of the pigeon to the babies and I watched on the nest cam as she dug the banded leg out of the nest bowl and started feeding it to the babies at 6:51 this morning.
After a couple of nibbles of the leg meat, Sadie turned and removed the banded leg from the nest as she does with all uneaten meat scraps.
The footage below is of the feeding attempt and toting of the leg: