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

Bobby & Violet visited the nest today! August 11, 2011

It was a big day in our little hawk world today. Bobby and Violet returned to their nest at Bobst library at NYU for a short while early this afternoon. It was the first confirmed sighting of Violet since July 18th (the last previously-known footage of her was in my post here). No one in […]


Pip, Bobby, and Violet – July 18, 2011

It was a hot and hazy day in New York City (as well as the rest of the country so I heard). The high reached 95 with a ‘real feel’ temperature of 99. So you can well imagine how we few Pipsters and the hawks were coping today. At first I had my doubts that […]


No Pip but lots of Violet & Bobby – Sunday, July 3, 2011

It was a rainy, drizzly, gray day most of today. A bunch of us sat or stood around and chatted as we watched Bobby and Violet sit on the same fence for hours today. For a ‘normal’ non hawk-obsessed person, that may have seemed like a dull way to spend a Sunday in New York […]