I finally had a chance to get up to St. John the Divine tonight.  Construction has started on a new building right next to the nest, so this may be the last season for this nest.  We’ll see what happens next year.

But for now there are three very cute eyasses enjoying their nest on the shoulders of St. Andrew.

All of the eyasses have fledged at St. John the Divine.  This afternoon two were on or near the fences at the parking lot and the third was in a windows of a St. Luke’s Hospital building across the street.  Both parents were keeping an eye on all of them.

This evening at St. John, a feeding revealed three eyasses in the nest.  This beautiful location continues to consistently give us young hawks year after year.

Up at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine the three youngsters are in various states.  One fledged a few days ago and is exploring the Cathedral with ease and was above the nest in a turret when I arrived.  One had recently fledged and was in a tree across the street in Morningside Park. (Jeremy Seto’s footage of the fledge is on Flickr.) And the third was still on the nest.

The parents came to visit the eyass still on the nest.  The father delivered a rodent, and the mother visited for a few minutes, right afterwards.  An American Kestrel gave one of the parents a hard time, while it perched on St. Luke Hospital’s Plant building.

I had the good fortune to be at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine nest at the right time to see two eyasses on the nest.  We never know for sure how many eyasses are on this nest until late in the season.  For some reason it’s easy of for a third eyass to hide in this nest.

Both the Morningside Hawks and The Origin of Species blogs have reported feedings at the St. John the Divine nest.  I made a brief visit on Saturday.  I didn’t catch a feeding but it sure looks like they hatched from the behavior of the parents.