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

Special Topic: Fledges

One of the Hawk babies has fledged [Updated with photos] – June 14th, 2015

It’s 10:00PM as I type this update. I was home from this morning’s Hawking when I got the call around 5:00PM that one of the Hawk babies had fledged so I rushed back to the park.

The fledgling was hanging out on Bobst Library roof when I arrived. It walked, ran, and exercised its wings a bit during the 2 hours it was on the roof. It then flew to Silver and then to the building across the street from Silver.

The baby that was still in the nest did a lot of jump-flapping and flying on the ledge but didn’t leave tonight.

I never saw the other Hawk baby this morning during my earlier visit so a fellow Hawk-watcher and I now think the fledgling had left the nest either before we got to the park this morning or late yesterday after we had left (and that to think the amorphous dark shape seen further back on the ledge this morning as the other baby was a mistake).

There was lots of action when I returned to the park this afternoon. I’ll go through my photos and post them in the morning so stay tuned for an update to this post.

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Morning update. I’m going to include precise timestamps in order to better show how things transpired last night.

Bobby brought food to the nestling at 5:44PM:

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Tompkins Square Park fledglings get fed by their father – July 5th, 2014

I visited Tompkins Square Park this morning to check on the resident Red-tailed Hawk family. All three Hawk babies have fledged so I thought it’d be fun to try to track them down and see how they were getting on.

I am glad I went to TSP instead of Washington Square Park to look for fledglings because I would not have found them; a fellow Hawk-watcher spotted them at 5th Avenue and 12th Street this morning! That corner is a good five blocks north of Washington Square Park and I would definitely not have found them if I looked in all the usual places.

The TSP fledglings were easy to find because I heard one crying/begging loudly from a tall tree. A friend and I followed the sound and got to see a lot of action in the hour we spent in the park.

The first of the two fledglings we saw, hopping about the tree branches:

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