November is a great time to watch hawks in Central Park. Migrants are coming through, both adults and juveniles and resident Red-tailed adults are more visible as the trees loose their leaves. Here’s a group of images taken over the last two weeks, from the south end to the north.
One of the adults was on the “nest” which had a plastic bag and a few twigs. Since a female Red-tail can take almost a week to lay three eggs, I’m not sure if we might see another egg so I’ve been keeping an eye out when I’m nearby. Today, I didn’t get any answer to what’s happening.
I looked at the two Central Park Red-tailed Hawk nests on Tuesday.
On the San Remo, one of the hawks was on the ledge. It flew in and out a few times. Most of the twigs have blown off. The female may have an egg or two more to lay so I’ll be keeping an eye on the ledge over the next few days.
350 CPW continues to look good. The female was sitting on the eggs and rolled them while I was there. I’m looking forward to eyasses in late April.
Neither of the San Remo hawks was sitting on the nest late this morning, so I assume they lost their egg to gravity sometime in the last 24 hours.
The good news is that the San Remo hawks have an egg. The very sad news is that yet again they haven’t built a proper nest and while the egg didn’t roll off the ledge, it came very close to being lost this afternoon. It is more than likely that this couple will have a failed nest again this year.
I caught up with the San Remo pair late in the day, when they had completed their work for the day on the nest. They were perched on the north tower and one of them made a brief nest visit.
