The Red-tailed Hawks of Washington Square Park, NYC… mostly
The Washington Square Park fledglings found their way back to the park and neighboring blocks after having spent the last week on buildings north and east of the park. A fellow Hawk-watcher found one of the fledglings perching around the buildings lining the eastern side of the park. It then went into the southeast cluster […]
I had no luck finding any of the Washington Square Park Red-tailed Hawks yesterday but a fellow Hawk-watcher saw both fledglings doing well early this evening. One of them flew and dove at the pigeon flock that lives just north of the park. Both fledglings then wound up on an NYU building at the eastern […]
A couple of Hawk-watchers who were in Washington Square Park before me this morning got the treat of seeing all three of Rosie and Bobby’s fledglings sitting in a row together on two different building perches. They later got to watch two of the fledglings zip about in some of the park trees and to […]
Due to the Central Park fledglings’ recent illness, I was moved to once again to reach out to Parks Department (and now other NYC authorities) on the matter of using rodenticide (specifically the anticoagulant variety) in city parks and to suggest alternatives. No one knows for sure what is causing the fledglings’ illnesses but it […]
I missed a lot of Washington Square Park Hawk action while I was at work. Friends in the park contacted me throughout the day and reported seeing a fledgling at the western side of the park with Bobby and Rosie. The Hawks were inthe fenced-off area of the park referred to as”Quantico” or “the hunting […]