I ended up timing my visit to the Terence Cardinal Cooke nest just right, as a feeding started almost as soon as I got there. It’s clear now that we only have one eyass on the nest. It will be fun to have it in the Conservatory Garden and the surrounding area in a month or so.

It’s looking more likely each day that there is only one eyass on the Terence Cardinal Cooke. It would be interesting to know what happened, but I don’t think we’ll ever know for sure. I don’t know how many eggs were laid, or how many hatched.

One thing we have observed is that the mother often has wet feathers when she gets up off the nest. There is a possibility that there is a drainage problem under the nest. Hopefully, as the pair add to the nest next winter, it becomes higher and drier.

The eyass that is visible on the nest was much more visible today affording better “baby pictures”. I had hoped to see signs of at least two eyasses by now but haven’t. We’ll just have to wait some more to see how many there are.

One of the young eyasses at the Terence Cardinal Cooke nest was very visible during an early afternoon feeding today. Before the feeding the mother took a brief break and left the nest unattended for about ten minutes. This is a sign the youngsters have grown up enough to not need the warm of their mother constantly. It will be a few days before we can see how many young there are. They hatch a few days apart, with the younger ones staying hidden for a bit longer. We hopefully will see one or two more shortly.

At this stage there is a lot of waiting, maybe 90-150 minutes between feedings. But I’m looking forward to late May when the young hawks will be running and flapping along the long ledge the nest is on.

One eyass (hatchling) was visible today at the Terence Cardinal Cooke nest. How nice to have a successful nest on Fifth Avenue this year, even if it is 31 blocks north of Pale Male and Octavia’s nest. I can’t yet figure out how many eyasses there are, but we definitely have one. It is still very hard to see, and should be much easier to see in a week or two. The long ledge the nest is on should make for some fun practice runs in a month.

The eyasses are still a little too small to see at the Terence Cardinal Cooke nest. But I did get to see the eyasses get fed and also watched both parents eat on the New York Academy of Medicine building. By next weekend, we should be able to see the eyasses clearly. Although at this early stage they spend much of their time sleeping, so be prepared to wait for the moment they get fed every two hours or so.