On my way home from the North Woods of Central Park, I went by 350 Central Park West to see how the pair was doing.  Luckily, I got to see the pair exchange places on the nest.  Both hawks looked great.

In the middle of the afternoon, I got to see the male of the 350 Central Park West nest give the female a nest a break from incubation duties.  It was 45 seconds of excitement after an hour of watching the female sit on the nest!

Birding in other areas of the park made up for the hours wait.  Spring migration is finally started and new species are arriving daily and general number are higher too.  I had three new species for the year, Great Egret, Black-crowned Night-Heron and Golden-crowned Kinglet.

I caught up with the adults of the 350 Central Park West nest this afternoon.  The female was sitting on the nest and the male was soaring above The Pond. 

The female at 350 Central Park West has started sitting on the nest.  I would suspect that there is a single egg with one or two still to be laid over the next few days.  The male stayed in two trees across from 350 CPW while I was watching the nest.  This is the fifth confirmed nest for the year in Manhattan.

It was very windy so the video has some very shaky patches.  I included them just to demonstrate she was clearly on the nest.

My post about brooding nests yielded news that the Inwood Hill Park nest started brooding on Sunday.  So, that makes the fourth confirmed, active nest of the season. 

I went up to 350 Central Park West to see if they were brooding yet, but it looks like they haven’t yet.  They did however copulate over the playground at 96th/97th.

The hawks at 350 Central Park West seem all set of the season.  The nest is in much better shape than last year and looks great.  One of the hawks was on the church at 96th Street for twenty minutes. Then both hawks visited the nest and they then copulated while I was there in the early afternoon today.  The building is excited to have them nesting and seems very protective of them which is great news.