Special Topic: Mating

I’ve been suspecting for weeks that the female Red-tailed Hawk that’s been perching, soaring, and mating at Central Park’s Grand Army Plaza and The Plaza Hotel/apartment building is Pale Male’s current mate Octavia.

It was her general coloring, markings, but especially the black tip on one of her tail feathers that was too close to Octavia’s to convince me they had to be the same bird. My suspicions plagued me though because I did not yet have a photo that proved them to be the same bird.. until the 20th when I took the photo below:

Continue to the full post… “The Plaza Hawk female is Pale Male’s mate Octavia – February 22nd, 2013”

Central Park. It was perfect timing for me when I stepped around the corner and I saw the two Red-tailed Hawks about to mate on one side of The Plaza Hotel:

Continue to the full post… “Mating on The Plaza and Bobby Hawk in bed – February 21st, 2013”

I was only a block away from Washington Square Park when a fellow Hawk-watcher in the park texted that Rosie and Bobby had just mated. I was a little disappointed to have missed seeing the mating but at least I got to see the pair sitting in a nicely relaxed state together for close to twenty five minutes.

Atop NYU’s Silver Center:

Continue to the full post… “Rosie and Bobby after mating this evening – February 15th, 2013”