It was a nice spring evening in Washington Square Park. Bobby, the male was on the Education Building flagpole when I arrived. He went to the nest to give the female a break. She went to a spanish roof at the southwestern side of the park where she preened for about an hour. Her brood patch was visible at times when she faced the wind. While watching her, there was a photogenic Palm Warbler in the park grass.
The female hawk returned to the nest and Bobby then went to the Pless building and appeared to take a chest bath. After about fifteen minutes he few west and we lost him somewhere around the Judson church.