5th Avenue Nesting
The Fifth Avenue hawks are now sitting on their nest.
Category: 927 5th Avenue Red-tailed Hawks
Charlotte lays an egg
Reports are that Charlotte laid an egg on Sunday and is now sitting on the Central Park South nest. This is about a week later than Lola who is already sitting on her Fifth Avenue nest.
If all goes well this year, it should be a wonderful Spring with lots of fledglings in the park.
Fordham Hawks make the tree to building nest move
Rob Jett reports on his excellent The City Birder blog, that the Fordham Campus Red-tailed Hawks have made the move from tree nesting to building nesting.
This makes the fourth New York City building nest I’ve heard reports of:
Fifth Avenue
Bronx Fire Escape (2004) (Daily News, NYC DEP)
Central Park South
Fordham Campus
Update: I forgot about the St. John the Divine (200?-?) nest, which would make five. If you know of other building nests in NYC, please leave a comment.
5th Avenue Hawks
I was walking near Cedar Hill, when I saw a Red-tailed hawk fly north at an incredible pace, and then make a perfect right angle to turn and proceed towards the back of the Met. I walked north, and found both Pale Male and Lola. I heard a wonderful sound from them. The circled quite low in the area between the Obelisk and the museum. (It was quite windy and I wonder if this was a protected area.)
Within minutes I lost them, and headed south towards the model boat pond. I ran into Lincoln Karim who reported that the pair had copulated three times earlier in the day.
Here are some pictures from the Northwestern shore of the model boat pond around 4:30.
Pale Male Brings Lola Take-Out
While birding at the Oven (a section of the Ramble on the shore of the Lake), I was enjoying the variety of birds which included, Canada Geese, Mallards, a Mourning Dove, a Red-bellied Woodpecker, two Downy Woodpeckers, Blue Jays, Black-capped Chickadees, Tufted Titmice, a Fox Sparrow, four Northern Cardinals, two male Red-winged Blackbirds, a Rusty Blackbird, a Common Grackle, a House Finch, and lots of House Sparrows.
Around 4:30 p.m. we spotted Pale Male with a rat circling over the Oven. He then headed towards 5th Avenue.
It was very cold. A group of us thought heading to see where Pale Male went with the rat would warm us up. So, it was off to “The Bench” by the model boat pond.
Bookends
Pale Male and Lola perched on opposite towers of the Beresford Sunday afternoon around 1:30 pm. Pale Male was on the SE tower and Lola on the NE tower.
