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WSP Hawk and sleepy Peregrine – August 3rd, 2014

I looked for the Washington Square Park (WSP) Red-tailed Hawks yesterday afternoon but never found any. A fellow Hawk-watcher saw one of the fledglings and one of the adults outside Union Square Park earlier this morning. Union Square Park is 8 blocks northeast of Washington Square Park. I hopped on the subway and headed to […]

Multiple Hawks and friends – October 27th, 2012

A Red-tailed Hawk was soaring above the Washington Square Park square a few minutes after I arrived this morning. I was so focused on trying to get my camera settings right on such a cloudy day, I took for granted that it was probably Rosie or Bobby. When I got home and looked through my […]

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 […]

Pip may have flown the Coop/Co-op

The last time I saw Pip was on August 4th, per my post from that day: https://rogerpaw.com/2011/08/pip-and-bobby-union-square-park-august/ I looked around the blogosphere and saw no mention of any confirmed sightings of her any day after that.My guess is she has flown the coop. Her departure was to be expected but it’s a bit tough at […]

Bobby in both parks – August 12, 2011

A few of us hawk-watchers started our vigil in Washington Square Park on Friday the 12th since Bobby and Violet had been spotted there the day before. We had great luck in seeing Bobby almost immediately upon entering the park’s center. He was sitting on one of his regular perches atop an NYU building at […]