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

Fledgling dives toward prey on the ground – July 5th, 2016

A couple of fellow Hawk-watchers have seen the Washington Square Park fledgling dive toward prey on the ground over the last few days. Today was the first day I got to see him do the same. He didn’t catch any of the critters but he was getting great practice in. He doesn’t seem to need […]


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 […]

Fledglings zipping about in the trees – June 16th, 2013

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 […]