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

Springtime Central Park birding pics from April 28th, 2014

We’re in the middle of a rainy streak in New York City so there isn’t much Hawk-watching to do for another day or so. But a fellow Hawk-watcher who lives near Washington Square Park has seen Bobby out and about and Rosie either warming the babes or sitting at the edge of the nest the last couple of days so all is well with them.

A friend and I, knowing we were due for a few days of rain, took our chance to visit Central Park our last sunny day to see how Spring migration was going.

Without even intending to, we soon wound up at Pale Male’s nest.

We had good timing because he appeared soaring in the sky before we could reach the best place to view his nest from. He was toting food for his new hatchlings. He and Octavia have two babes this Spring.

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Inwood Hill Park birding – April 21st, 2012

Inwood Hill Park is a beautiful 196 acre park at the northern tip of Manhattan. I visited it for the first time on Saturday. It only took about 40 minutes to reach by subway from my area of the city.

One of its resident Red-tailed Hawks soared the sky ahead of me as soon as I reached the area:

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