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May 13, 2007December 22, 2020St. John/Columbia Red-tailed Hawks

Sleepy Evening

I arrived around 6 p.m. to find both parents off the nest and the nest absolutely quiet. No sign of the eyas(ses) while I was there from about 6 p.m. until about 7:30 p.m.

The father stayed in one spot, about twenty feet from the nest the whole time I was there. The mother shifted spots. First she was on West 110th, then the southeastern Plant building chimney, then the ornament on the Plant building, which we’ve nicknamed the urn.

The adult male on the Cathedral in a spot about twenty feet from the nest.

The female on the southeast Plant chimney.

She flies down to at least 116th Street surveying the area and then returns to the “urn” at the southeast corner of the Plant building. This is only 15 feet from where she had been on the chimney.

Here is a pictures that relates his position to that of the nest.

The mother in the warm light of the setting sun.

May 12, 2007December 22, 2020St. John/Columbia Red-tailed Hawks

St. John on Saturday

I spent about an hour at the nest on Saturday. I was able to see brief glimpses of the eyas(ses). The nest seems to be one or two inches higher than last year. This is making it much harder to get a clear view.

They’ll be getting taller each day, so by next weekend it should be easy to figure out how many kids are in the nest. But for now, we just have to wait.

An eyas is next to it’s mother on the right.

She perches on St. Luke’s for about thirty minutes.

A head appears every five minutes or so.

The adult female continues to sit on St. Luke’s.

She then does a brief tour of the area, before landing on the Archangel.

May 10, 2007December 22, 2020St. John/Columbia Red-tailed Hawks

More Eyas Glimpses At The Cathedral

The adult female. She seems to be taking it easy these days. She let
the male do the feeding this evening. After laying eggs, sitting on
the eggs and then keeping her very young chicks warm, I think she
deserves her mini vacation.

Here she’s on a St. Luke’s hospital building across the street from the Cathedral.

The adult female about twenty feet from the nest.

She takes off and does some limited flying.

The eyas(ses) continue to peek through the twigs at the top of the nest. We still don’t have an accurate count of how many chicks there are.

May 9, 2007December 22, 2020St. John/Columbia Red-tailed Hawks

An Eyas Sighting at the Cathedral

The wait is over! At least one eyas is now big enough to show up over the edge of the nest.

The adult female taking time off the nest. A sure sign that the eyas(ses) are getting bigger.

The adult female perched about 20 feet from the nest.

A wonderful surprise. My first unobstructed sighting of a 2007 St. John the Divine eyas!

May 3, 2007December 15, 2020St. John/Columbia Red-tailed Hawks

Waiting for them to grow up

At St. John the Divine we know there are babies because of the feeding behavior of the parents, but because of the deep bowl and height of the nest they aren’t visible. I keep waiting for one of the eyasses to be strong enough to pop its head up. But it just hasn’t happened yet. On Thurdsay, we got to see the parents do feedings, saw both of them off the nest, and saw the male with a mouse. Everything but an eyas!

April 28, 2007December 22, 2020St. John/Columbia Red-tailed Hawks

Newborns at St. John the Divine

I visited the Cathedral twice on Saturday. In the late morning, and in the late afternoon. The nest is too high and too deep to see into, so we depend on the behavior changes of the parents as our clue that there are eyasses.

There were plenty of clues on Saturday, including food being taken into the nest, lots of feeding behavior, etc.

In the morning, when I arrived, no one was to be seen. Soon the adult male arrived on the Archangel.