The main news of the week has been a report from Ginny de Liagre of a nest being rapidly built just west of the West Drive’s W0302 streetlight. The pair originally from 350 Central Park West, that moved to 1115 Fifth Avenue this year, abandoned the Fifth Avenue location due to construction on the building last week.

Our hope is that this new nest belongs to this pair and they will attempt a second clutch soon. This paper, The Laying of Replacement Clutches by Falconifoema and Strigiforms In North America by Michael L. Morrison and Brian James Walton says to expect a recycling time between 12-25 days, with 17 days being the average for Red-tailed Hawks. So, if a second clutch happens it will most likely be the 3rd or 4th week of April.

(For those not in the know, all of Central Park’s streetlights have a number. The format is DNNXX, where D is the Drive name in this case West Drive, NN is the cross street with the 1 omitted for streets above 99 making 03 be 103rd Street, and XX is the number of the light, so in this case 2 means the second light. Before cell phones with GPS, this is how we know where we were if we got lost in the park.)

Two other pieces of news also came in this week. Richard Schmunk let me know the nest at 135th and Amsterdam had been removed from the fire escape with some unconfirmed reports that it might have been rebuild near Broadway. Via Facebook, I’ve received news from Patrick Delaney that hawks are being seen around the hotels at 55th and Fifth Avenue, both on the St. Regis and a few twigs were brought to The Peninsula.