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

Rosie (?) Hawk after the rain – August 10th, 2012

It rained heavily in the morning which curtailed my Hawk-watching. A friend and I went to Washington Square Park to look for the baby from yesterday as soon as the sky cleared. Unfortunately, we didn’t find either fledgling despite looking within and around the park for a good two hours. Shot of the nest from […]


Fledgling hang out, WSP – August 9th, 2012

Thanks to having a vacation day today, I was incredibly lucky to be able to spend four hours with one of the Washington Square Park fledglings. I say it was lucky because sightings of them have been fewer and far between and I was starting to believe they might have left the area already. Seeing […]


Letter to various authorities regarding the use of rodenticide

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 […]