One of the Central Park Grand Army Plaza/Plaza Hotel Red-tailed Hawks brought a rat to the side of The Plaza:
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Mating Central Park Plaza Hawks – February 4th, 2013
A coworker’s office window has a partial view of Central Park. The sight of NYPD helicopters flying in tight formation over the park was too rare a thing to pass up photographing.
Today was the funeral for former New York City mayor Ed Koch. I had a hunch the helicopters might have had something to do with his funeral. I researched this tonight and found one of the onlyarticlesto mention this respectful flyby. Jpost.com read, “But just before the doors opened to the formal salute, where half-a-dozen helicopters were to pass overhead on the edge of Central Park, Koch’s family had the officers remove the flag, citing religious reasons.” As of this writing this was the only real substantive mention of this ceremonial procession I could find.
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There is one egg in Bobby and Rosie’s nest!
Per the New York Times, NYU President Sexton saw an egg Tuesday when Bobby and Rosie were off the nest briefly. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/for-bobby-and-rosie-one-egg-in-the-nest/ And so the new season begins! Red-tailed hawk eggs are typically laid every other day (with three eggs in total being the norm). The first time regular hawk-watchers saw Bobby and Rosie copulate was on February 15th. Of course, it’s possible they mated before then. This first egg seems to have been laid on March 6th. That means it took roughly 20 days between mating and egg-laying. Per Wikipedia, it takes between 28-35 days for eggs to incubate then hatch. That would mean the eggs could hatch sometime between April 3rd – 10th.The web cam is supposed to be up and running early next week.