The Red-tailed Hawks of Washington Square Park, NYC… mostly
My first Hawk visit was to check in on the Plaza male.
He had been perched on the Plaza Hotel at first but I didn’t see exactly where he had been sitting when I saw him fly from the building’s direction.
He soared a bit over Central Park’s Grand Army Plaza and along 59th Street (just outside Central Park).
Flying past the Ritz-Carlton:
Continue to the full post… “Bobby’s baths and Hawk’s dinner – April 19th, 2013”
Followers of my blog will know that because I work near Central Park, I’ve become very interested in the red-tailed hawk couple that occupies the southeastern area of the park. I see them nearly every time I get to visit the park around lunch time.
These hawks often circle the sky above Grand Army Plaza and the Crown Building and other surrounding buildings in the Plaza area. One of the hawks in particular enjoys perching on the Plaza Hotel on the side overlooking Central Park.
I’ve noticed lately that the hawks have been landing on the same section of the Crown Building. At times a hawk would land on the building with twigs in its talons. Word gets around in hawk circles. I heard through friends that other folks have witnessed these hawks bringing nesting material to the Crown Building as well.
Since my company has office space overlooking the suspected nest, I investigated the scene today and took photos of where the hawks were seen landing. Sure enough, there is a nest being built on the side of one of Crown’s gables.
The nest is on the base of the gable to the left of center porthole window:
Continue to the full post… “Central Park red-tailed hawk nest – February 21, 2012”