News has arrived that the West End Avenue nest has failed this year.  Two eggs were laid, and one hatched.  The eyass died, although I’m not sure at what age.  This location and the nest locations nearby have had issues in years past, so this news while sad wasn’t that unexpected.

The last time I visited the West End Avenue/Riverside Park nest, it looked like there had been a hatch. Today, it was clear based on a little head that kept showing up.  We’ll figure out how many in a week or two.

A brief visit to the nest caught the female feeding, but it was unclear who and how many.  I suspect the nest has just hatched and will need a visit in a week or two.

We have so many Red-tailed Hawk nests in New York City, I can’t follow all of them anymore.  But I did get to a few this weekend.  I visited Sheep Meadow and Fifth Avenue on Saturday and all is good there.  And I visited St. John and Riverside/West End on Sunday.

(For news of the uptown nests, visit the Morningside Hawks Blog.)

The St. John nest is in a new location on a turret above the statue of St. Peter on the rear of the Cathedral. It’s one saint to the left of St. Andrew, where the nest has been for a number of years.  Construction of two new apartment buildings most likely encouraged the move.  The new nest is not protected from the rain, so it will be interesting to see how things turn out.

The nest on West End Avenue looked fine.  The female was visible for a few minutes about every twenty minutes.

I went exploring today to CCNY and West End Avenue.

No sign of eyasses at CCNY.  The nest shows no slices, but does have a fresh set of leaves in it.  Too confusing to figure out what’s up.

The West End Avenue nest has a single eyass.  It turns out it had had three eggs, two of which has hatched, with one eyass dying shortly after hatching.

I’ve been trying to tie up loose ends about this season in Manhattan, and West End Avenue is one of the nests I hadn’t heard news about.  When I arrived shortly after a visit by the male, the female looked to be feeding an eyass briefly.  It then sat down fairly low on the nest.

My guess is that we might have one egg hatched with other to follow.  But I would suspect it will be much easier to figure out in a week.