The Red-tailed Hawks of Washington Square Park, NYC… mostly
It’s been several weeks since I’ve seen a neighborhood Peregrine Falcon.
The one I’d been watching from my kitchen window doesn’t seem to like hanging out there anymore unfortunately.
The Peregrine I saw today could have been the same bird but there was no surefire way to know. It was seated on a building at the corner of 2nd Avenue and 1st Street:
Continue to the full post… “Neighborhood Peregrine Falcon, Bobby at dusk – November 12th, 2014”
Well, sort of. Here’s a fun little tidbit. One of the writers for the TV Show “The Carrie Diaries” (Amy B. Harris) reported on her Twitter account that she had once seen one of the Washington Square Park Red-tailed Hawks eating a pigeon in the park and had used that anecdote as material for the show. She doesn’t make clear when she saw the Hawk (and whether the Hawk she saw might have been Violet, Bobby, Rosie, or a juvenile).
The episode (Hungry like the Wolf), which aired on January 17th, opens with Carrie and a friend watching the Hawk (which turned out to be a Harris’s Hawk on-screen) eating a pigeon before it flies away.
I found out about this episode thanks to an automated email subscription which notifies me when the WSP Hawks are mentioned online.
I’d seen The Carrie Diaries getting filmed close to the park last September but I don’t think I was in the park the day this particular episode’s scene was filmed.
Below are some screen shots I took while doing my (ahem) research on the episode 🙂
Continue to the full post… “Washington Square Park Hawks, TV stars”
A fellow Hawk-watcher saw one of the Washington Square Park Hawks on a flag pole along the eastern side of the park this morning but I did not get to see either Hawk during my two hours in the park today. Below are some random shots I took during my walkabout.
Continue to the full post… “Random park sights and Warblers – October 3rd, 2013”