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A new stranger in town – October 23, 2011

A new stranger visited Washington Square Park today. It looked like it may have been a second-year juvenile since the tail feathers were still heavy with horizontal bars and reddish-brown but not yet brick red.During its stay I saw it hunt, kill, and eat three prey (two mice and a sparrow). Bobby and Violet chased […]

Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk eats a pigeon in the park – October 28th, 2014

I spent about 2 ½ hours with a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk in Washington Square Park today. I had to wonder if it was the same juvenile I’d seen flying above the park with Bobby on October 12th and the 24th but it was not possible to know for sure. October is one of the main […]

-Bonus pics of Violet on the Arch from October 23, 2011-

A few fellow hawk-watching friends of mine told me they liked my pics of Violet on the Washington Square Park Arch from 10/23 so much, I thought I’d post previously-unseen photos from that batch here. It truly was special seeing her up there after chasing the interloper hawk around the park in defense of her […]