Sadie chases adult Hawk away from park – June 5th, 2019

It was an action-packed day as a stranger Hawk appeared to start making itself comfortable in Washington Square Park before being chased out.

This adult Hawk may have been the same Hawk that dared to visit the nest ledge last night while Sadie was in the nest with the babies. You can read about that account in my last post’s comments section.

I found Sadie sitting on the corner of NYU’s Silver Center building when I arrived:

A banded pigeon’s body was lying under low trees on the east side of the park. I could only see the numbers 20 on one of its bands:

The three Hawk babies were pretty relaxed:

A squirrel kept its eye on me for a little while:

I thought I saw a Hawk fly low along the buildings near Sadie but I couldn’t be too sure until a fellow birder came over to tell me there were now two Hawks on Silver!

Apparently Sadie had flown to this second Hawk in one of the window sills. They sat together at this window until both then flew about. Sadie returned to the building corner and the other Hawk sat above her:

I thought perhaps with Sadie joining this new Hawk that perhaps this was a potential mate now that Bobby’s been gone for a month.

The new Hawk leaping off Silver.

It then flew close past the nest and continued on to sit on NYU’s Kimmel building across the street:

Sadie did not appear to mind this new Hawk. The Hawk relaxed and preened on top of the building for about half an hour before diving toward one of the lawns for prey:

I did not see what it was chasing. It never touched down on the ground. It continued flying and landed in a tree:

Peeking into a tree hole for squirrels:

A squirrel came rushing down the tree and chased the Hawk away:

The Hawk landed in a tree across from the nest:

It settled down and preened some more:

It flew to another tree after another 20 minutes:

It did some more tree hopping before flying out of the park and over some eastern buildings.

Sadie, who had remained on Silver, watched the Hawk then let out a number of screams and chased this Hawk.

They circled above the buildings and trees for a couple of minutes, Sadie screaming the whole time.

The Hawks then went their separate ways. Whether we’ll see this Hawk again remains to be seen but it looked like Sadie had had enough of its presence (at least for the remainder of my visit).

Meanwhile, the young Hawks were having a fine time practicing their hops and flaps between rests:

Sadie did some building hop-scotching before perching on the flag pole closest to the nest.

Looking in the nest’s direction: