After being able to travel only by foot for most of last year, I look forward to this year’s Red-tailed Hawk nesting season in Manhattan. I’ve seen activity first hand or have gotten reports from fellow hawks watchers. Reports are always appreciated.

Some of the recent news is:

• There is a new nest on the Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center. Hawks have tried this location before only to have the nest blow off the ledge. This one seems well-built and has a brooding pair, that most likely started sitting on the nest in early March. If they are successful, this may be the first nest to hatch in Manhattan. The nest is on a ledge near the top of the southwestern end of the side of the building facing Fifth Avenue.
• The pair in Fort Washington was seen getting ready for nesting in late February.
• St. John the Divine has also seen lots of activity, as has 927 Fifth Avenue (Pale Male/Octavia), Washington Square Park, Tompkins Square Park (Laura Goggin wrote a nice piece about the TSP nest history), and Governors Island.
• 350 Central Park West is still active. Although the air conditioner was removed and a new one was placed in the window to the right of the nest, the building left the shell of the old AC unit in place and left the nest undisturbed. Kudos to the building managers 350 CPW!
• In 2019, with only a week to go before the eyasses would have fledged, the building had the hawks removed from the 1802 Third Avenue nest. I don’t know what happened in 2020, but the adults are still in the neighborhood.