I took a look at Riverside Church to see if the young Peregrine Falcons were visible.  There was no sign of them. I was probably a week or two early, but did get to see one of the parents visit the scrape and then leave.

When the Hudson River is frozen upstate and ice floes form, wintering Bald Eagles ride the ice up and down the lower Hudson.  With the cold weather we’ve been having, conditions are near perfect to see eagles from the Dyckman Fishing Pier in the southwest corner of Inwood Hill Park in Manhattan.  Today, we saw three adults and five juveniles drift by the pier.  Locals say the best times to watch are early in the morning from 8 to 10 a.m.

There is a Peregrine nest box on the northern building of the Manhattan Psychiatric Center complex on Randalls Island.  Both resident Peregrines were perched near the nest box at dusk on Saturday.  While I was getting my camera gear out to photograph them, one took off and the other had moved to a new perch to eat prey.

Red-shouldered Hawk aren’t at all unusual in New York City, but we only see them a few times a year in Central Park, so this was another nice winter surprise.

On Sunday, I got to see the Peregrines again.  The youngsters were out on a ledge and an adult was watching over them.  The eyasses wings are now more fully developed and they look great. During my visit a partially eaten bird was retrieved and feed to the eyasses.  It’s nice to be able to watch them so easily.