The eyas on 888 Seventh Avenue is now running/flapping along the ledge, so one can finally see some activity from the street.  The eyas looks very healthy and in great shape to fly soon. 

Until today, this was the one eyas I known about but hadn’t yet seen.  This brings my hawk watching total for the season to 23 adults, 2 1st years, and 23 eyasses/fledglings for a total of 48 Red-tailed hawks in four boroughs of New York.

With the exception of the Astoria nest, all of these nests were in established territories.

I know I am missing a number of nests in the upper Bronx, eastern Queens and all of Staten Island. The total number of New York City’s Red-tailed Hawks could easily be double my count.

I just received a note from Brett Odom updating me on the status of the Seventh Avenue nest…

"Just wanted to give you an update.  Everything seems to be fine and the nest is in an ideal location for rainstorms similar to the one we had yesterday since it is protect from all sides.  Right now Charlotte is on the nest with the sleeping eyas and Junior is sitting on the Essex sign.

Regards,
Brett"

(For those not living in the New York area, yesterday, we had a severe thunderstorm roll through the area.  This new nest is full protected from such storms, while the old Central Park South nest would have been completely soaked and exposed high winds.)

I’ve been corresponding with Brett Odom, who has a view of the 888 7th Avenue nest.  He confirmed on Monday that there was only one chick in the nest.

Brett asked me about the fledglings and if they would have any problems getting down from such a high floor.  I figured out the height of both 888 Seventh Avenue and the former nest on Parc Trump.  They’re a floor apart!  So, if the chicks could do it two years ago, I think we’ll be fine this year.

The new location of the Central Park South hawk’s nest on 888 Seventh Avenue can’t be seen from the street.  The nest is on the east face of the building between 56th and 57th Street.

Does anyone have a view of the nest?  It’s twelve stories down from the top of the building.

Update: Lincoln Karim has some great shots of the nest on his site, www.palemale.com.  The nest, which I originally thought might have been behind the vents, is sandwiched between a faux window, and the vents.  It seems like a very secure location, free of rain, wind and direct sunlight.  The actual nest placement, is one set of windows north of where I had originally thought the nest was located.

It look like the Central Park South nest has definitely been moved to 888 Seventh Avenue.  Or should we say into 888 Seventh Avenue.

This will prevent us from keeping a close eye on the nest.  Hopefully eyasses will pop out later this year!