The Red-tailed Hawks of Washington Square Park, NYC… mostly
All the Washington Square Park Red-tailed Hawks were seen doing well today. The fledgling Hawks ate and explored together. Mama Sadie Hawk later displayed her ferocity while protecting her fledglings.
Continue to the full post...When I first arrived at Washington Square Park today I saw a Hawk in one of Bobby’s favorite trees:
Continue to the full post… “Mighty fights between Bobby and a Juvenile Hawk – January 16th, 2015”
A fellow Hawk-watcher spent most of the day in and around Washington Square Park in the hopes of spotting the female Red-tailed Hawk that was released in the park yesterday and to see if she was getting along with Bobby. I was in the park for two hours.
Between the two of us I think we missed maybe three hours of daylight and neither of us saw the female Red-tail. I’m not saying she wasn’t around but we weren’t fortunate to see her if she was.
We did see Bobby, a Cooper’s Hawk flying around the southern area of the park, and a Peregrine Falcon getting into three fights with Bobby over the course of my two hour visit.
Bobby was on the One Fifth Avenue building when I arrived:
