I visited the RIverside Park nest after work on Friday, and found three active eyasses with their mother on a nearby branch.  She went on and off the nest a few times and fed them twice.  The nest was visited by the male once.

The video is about eight minutes long and features various angles of the nest and a few shots of the mother perched above the highway.

The young hawks are starting to show the first signs of getting their new feathers.  If you want to see fuzzy eyasses, make sure you visit this weekend.

Last year, Mother’s Day was the day we confirmed the deaths of the three 2008 eyasses.  The cause ended up being secondary poisoning by rodenticides.  It was on everyone’s mind this Mother’s Day.

This Mother’s Day, we had healthy eyasses and a mother adding greenery to the nest.  It must need some freshening up with three babies.  It will be interesting to see if she also starts to add a guard rail.

The father flew by a few times while I was there and perched near the nest as I was leaving.  The mother was very cooperative and posed for Mother’s Day photos with her young.

The Riverside eyasses continue to get bigger.  The parents continue to do an excellent job feeding them.  We should start to see some wing feathers start to grow in soon.

After a few days of rain, I was able to get back to the Riverside Park nest.  The eyasses are doing much better at standing up and moving around the nest.  I can’t tell if they’re taller or just standing straighter. But is much easier to get a look at them.

The father spent most of his time on a branch about 15 feet from the nest.  The mother kept the eyasses warm and fed, making two trips across the highway to “take out the trash”.  She flew just above the car traffic.  The highway is going to make this site nerveracking when the eyasses fledge!

I went to Riverside in a brief break in the rain late Sunday afternoon.  I saw the female feed the eyasses, who are getting much better at standing up, and the male, who was hanging out close to the nest.

Despite all of the rain, everyone seemed to be doing just fine.  The only ones who seemed unhappy were two Blue Jays, who gave the male a hard time for about fifteen minutes.

By the third feeding I saw this afternoon it became clear that we had three eyasses (baby hawks) in the nest.  Eggs are laid over the period of a few days, and so the eggs don’t hatch all at once.  Since newly hatched eyasses have trouble standing, during the first few days observing a newly hatched nest, you may discover the last hatchling a few days after seeing the older ones.

This relatively low nest, with the exit ramp at the same level of the nest, is giving us a wonderful opportunity to view the young eyasses during their first week.  A rare treat for those of us accustomed to building nests like Trump Parc, St. John the Divine or Fifth Avenue.  The last video clearly shows all three.