Since Rosie hasn’t been seen in Washington Square Park for months (I personally have not seen her since September 15th), it has been fair to surmise that she may not ever return.
Whether she has passed away or found a new mate elsewhere is anyone’s guess. Of course I and everyone I know hopes there’s still a chance she’ll return but the odds of that happening becomes increasingly slimmer.
Bobby is quite the eligible bachelor now and I’ve been hoping to see a new female in the park so that they might have a brood this spring but so far there have been no visiting females.
As luck would have it, the Horvaths of WINORR (Wildlife in Need of Rescue and Rehabilitation) had been taking care of an injured city female Red-tailed Hawk the last few weeks.
She was ready to be released back into the city today and Washington Square Park looked like a great option on several levels; she would be released back into her familiar environs (the city) and there would be no harm in seeing if perhaps she and Bobby might take a liking to each other. And if Rosie was indeed still around and drove her out of the park, there’d be no harm in that either.
And so it was that with great care she was released into the park today:
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