After a few days of having Flaco being relaxed after fly out, he was very active tonight. He surprised us by active he was visiting a number of “old favorite” perches and some new ones. We lost track of him fairly early, however.

Ofter the last few weeks, Flaco has been in no rush to do anything after fly out. He’s either exploring the construction site, hooting or just perching on a branch. Hunting seems to be low on the list of his priorities before midnight. We know he’s eating well, as we see him with food in the morning and coughing up pellets, but he seems to have shifted to hunting later in the night when the park is closed.

The longer nights may have made him less in a rush to hunt early, but it’s only a guess. However, it does mean that we’re much less likely to seem him hunt or be on the round if we stay to watch him after fly out.

Tonight was one of those quiet nights. He did some hooting in a tree half way from his roost tree and the construction site after fly out, and then went to the construction site before perching for hours in a tree east of the construction site.

Tonight started as a fairly standard night. Flaco flew out of his roost and headed for the constructions site. He made two stops before he was interrupted by Red-tailed Hawk, who chased after him briefly. Flaco ended up hooting from a tree up on the ridge trail before flying to the tree he hooted from last night. Late in the evening he flew out of the tree and we couldn’t relocate him.

I arrived around 9 pm, to find Flaco hooting from a tree along the East Drive. It took me about fifteen minutes to find where in the tree however. He was using two new perches that required me to find just the right angle to see him. After about thirty minutes, he went to a favorite tree in the compost area of the park. For about ten minutes he was lit up by the blinking taillights of a park truck unloading trash. After the truck left, he took off and I couldn’t find him, so I called it a night.

Tonight, was like many nights recently. A nice calm fly out, a visit to construction and then an extended stop at Nutter’s Battery hooting. Unlike previous nights, I did get to see Flaco early enough that I got to see his full visit to the construction site.

Sunday night, I arrived after fly out to find Flaco inside the unfinished building at the Meer. He was in the northern section, but flew out quickly. He hooted briefly from Nutter’s Battery, but then made a pass around the construction site. We went looking for him but couldn’t find him and returned to the construction site. I decided to make one last look for him, and found him in one of his favorite trees. He stayed there but after about an hour I lost him. A park truck came with recyclables and that flushed him from near where he had been perching. He then flew to the safety of one of the Black Locusts, sneezed a few times and then hooted. By that time, it was almost midnight, so I went home.