There have been sightings of a new Red-tailed Hawk in Central Park over the last few weeks. Locations for the bird include 95th Street and 86th Street along Fifth Avenue. On Saturday, I photographed what I think is the same bird in the Locust Grove.
Could this be the 1st Year, that spend the winter in the North Woods or a new hawk?
The second and the last eyas on the Astoria Park nest, left this morning and headed to a park north of the bridge. (Thanks to Jules Corkery for letting me know about the fledge.)
When I got there this evening it was still there with its mother watching over it.
I arrived to a quiet afternoon in Astoria. One of the parents was on the bridge and the eyas still on the nest was making practice jumps around the nest and up to a bracket on the bridge.
At some point the fledgling had enough and flew south to a residential block of Astoria. I walked around the block looking for it, but couldn’t find it. I think it was on a flat roof that wasn’t visible from the street. With the excitement over, I returned to Manhattan.
The Astoria Park nest had its first fledge on Saturday around 2 p.m. The fledgling went to the equipment depot under the bridge near the nest. It was the safest place to fledge. Good choice young one.
The Astoria Park eyasses are 45 days old, so they should be fledging soon. These pictures were taken on Monday.
All was quiet when I arrived. The eyasses were settling down after a feeding.
