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

Post-blizzard park walkabout – January 3rd, 2014

A sizable blizzard passed through the northeast overnight last night. A friend and I ventured over to Washington Square Park to check on the Red-tailed Hawks and to see the park in all its wintery snowness.

We didn’t see the Hawks during our 45 minute visit but I wasn’t too worried; I’m sure they were being smarter than we were and were cozied up at a much less windy location (it was 14 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind chill of -4 degrees when we were at the park).

A fellow Hawk-watcher did see one of the Hawks soaring above the eastern side of the park at 3:30PM (several hours after my friend and I had left the park).

Garibaldi Monument,east side of the park:

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