I got an email yesterday from Emily, a resident of 350 Central Park West, that a pair of hawks were building a nest on the 15th Floor of her building.  

I got to see the pair this evening. The hawks are building on an air conditioner, on the right most faux balcony. I watched them copulating on the north tower of The Eldorado and bringing twigs to 350 Central Park West. (94 and 95th Street are the cross streets.)  The nest building is in the very early stages, so there is still a good chance the hawks could decide to nest elsewhere.  

But if the hawks do nest on Central Park West, we might have a bumper copy of young hawks in the park this summer.  Between this new nest, the new nest on the Plaza Hotel, Pale Male’s nest on 5th Avenue, and the St. John the Divine nest, whose kids always end up in the north end of Central Park, we could have lots of fledglings in the park.

Of course a lot could happen between now and summer, but a hawk watcher can always dream!