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

The Plaza Hawk female is Pale Male’s mate Octavia – February 22nd, 2013

I’ve been suspecting for weeks that the female Red-tailed Hawk that’s been perching, soaring, and mating at Central Park’s Grand Army Plaza and The Plaza Hotel/apartment building is Pale Male’s current mate Octavia. It was her general coloring, markings, but especially the black tip on one of her tail feathers that was too close to […]

Red-tailed Hawk nest at The Plaza Hotel – January 9th, 2013

I haven’t mentioned this before (because I didn’t yet have the amount of evidence I needed) but it’s now clear to me that the Southeastern Central Park Red-tailed Hawks I’ve been following are building a nest at The Plaza Hotel. I’d been watching the Hawks bring twigs to a particular ledge more frequently than to […]