The first fledge occurred at the New York Athletic Club on Tuesday morning. Reports are two of the eyasses were fighting over who would get to perch on the flag pole mount, and one end up fledging. It landed safely in a tree about 100 feet north of Central Park West.

When I arrived the mother had already visited and she made two more visits while I was there. The newly fledged birds didn’t do much other than learn to navigate the branches of the tree. It looked great.

The two eyasses still on the nest were very active, and look ready to follow their pioneering sibling. The mother made a good number of visits to the nest as well. I’m looking forward to the summer and watching these hawks grow up.

I only had about an hour after dinner to watch the New York Athletic Club nest. The mother was on the eastern shield of the building asking as a target for the Blue Jays that harass the hawks in the late evening when I arrived. At some point the father brought in prey, landing and leaving in under a minute. The mother then came in to help feed the eyasses and then hopped up on the unused mount for a flag pole. At this point it was getting too dark to take anymore pictures. I’m looking forward to the young hawks being in the southern section of Central Park this summer.

I’ve been having a hard time finding the father, so it was great to see him for a few hours on the Essex House sign and then Hampshire House. He is so much lighter than the mother.

The mother perched two floors above the nest for at least an hour tonight. She was helping to keep the Blue Jays that attack the nest area, distracted and attacking her. The Blue Jays aren’t doing any harm, they’re just annoying. But I can understand, why they are so annoying. The father raided a jay nest last night and took a nestling.

The evening was like many of the others with the mother coming in late in the evening, doing a little feeding and then just watching the eyasses. Before she came in we saw her up on a building across the street from the NYAC being harassed by a House Finch. After she arrived, I saw the father raid a Blue Jay nest.

The mother had turned her back on the eyasses to watch the park view, and one of the eyasses pulled and puller on her tail to get her to turn back around. Kids!

It was great to see the adult female looking normal today. No closed left eye or droopy left wing. Instead she looked great. She was on top of the NYAC mid-afternoon, and when I returned around 7 pm was already on the nest helping feed the eyasses. She looked great and as though nothing had happened to her over the last week.

Thank you to the Wild Bird Fund for taking care of her and returning her as soon as possible.

The male made a brief visit mid-afternoon, but he spends so little time on the nest I didn’t have a chance to take his picture.

Yesterday, the Wild Bird Fund released the female hawk that had been picked up around 72nd Street earlier in the week. She wasn’t seen around the nest on Saturday, so it was unclear if the bird that was released was actually the NYAC female or not.

But today, she was on buildings west of the nest and then came to the nest in the early evening. The nest is attracting a crowd of birders these days, and everyone was saw her come to the nest was happy and relieved.

The adult female still seems to have a few residual effects from her concussion. She was closing her left eye frequently for long periods and sometime would let her left wing drop lower than her right wing. Let’s hope the female continues to recover.