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April 10, 2013December 26, 2020Other Red-tailed Hawks

Central Park West Drama

After receiving reports that the Central Park West had been taken down, I went to the park today to look for the hawks. You can imagine my surprise when I found a hawks sitting on a slightly smaller nest than I had seen on the weekend. (It’s not clear if the female has laid eggs just yet, or will be in the next few days.)

When I got home, folks on the WSP chat room directed me to the Pale Male Irregulars website. It had news of destruction of the nest by the construction company working on the façade. There was also a story in the New York Post.

Lets hope the hawks can rebuild the nest in time to make a good go of it this year.

Update: 4/11/13. I was sent a photograph today that showed the female sitting on the ledge with one egg having rolled away from her. Without a proper nest bowl, she may have had to choose to incubate only one egg.

April 7, 2013December 17, 2020Other Red-tailed Hawks

Central Park West Update

The pair on Central Park West continues to copulate and doesn’t seem quite ready to settle down to nesting just yet. Reports are that they are not bothered by the construction crews on the building where they have built there nest so this is great news. On Sunday, I saw them copulate on the south tower of the Eldorado and watched the male fly in the high winds.

April 2, 2013December 17, 2020Other Red-tailed Hawks

Central Park West

The Central Park pair on the west side in the 90s looks to have completed their nest. I found them both on Central Park West at 93rd, eating a pigeon and then copulating. Let’s hope they do well and aren’t disturbed by the construction on the nest building.

March 17, 2013December 26, 2020927 5th Avenue Red-tailed Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, Hawks and Osprey, Other Red-tailed Hawks, Southern Central Park Red-tailed Hawks

Central Park Hawks

Today was a nice day in Central Park. I had the two Red-tailed hawks trying to establish a nest on CPW, (now working on a nest on 322 CPW.) Then a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk on the American Museum of Natural History followed by Sharp-shinned Hawk in the Evodia Field.

My next stop was Fifth Avenue, where Octavia is now brooding. Pale Male was tending to the nest (rearranging twigs as is his habit) and she returned to the nest.

A quick walk down to Central Park South uncovered one Red-tailed hawk there. Seven hawks, not too bad for a brief afternoon visit to the park.

March 3, 2013December 26, 2020Other Red-tailed Hawks

Central Park Tennis Courts

Two Red-tails appeared over the Reservoir this afternoon, soared together and then came back down to perch about 100 yards apart near the Tennis Courts in Central Park. This is the pair that was bringing twigs to 350 Central Park West earlier in the week.

They stayed in the same trees for about twenty minutes, and didn’t like they were going to be moving soon, so I moved on. Let’s hope they stay in the park this spring.

February 23, 2013December 26, 2020Other Red-tailed Hawks

Locust Grove Youngster

A first-year Red-tailed Hawk was eating a squirrel in the rain on Saturday in the Locust Grove of Central Park. We’ve got lots of young hawks in the park this winter.