I saw another feeding, or to be more accurate, the mother eating on the Terence Cardinal Cooke nest late in the day. I really shouldn’t expect to see them until late in the week, but I’m sure I’ll keep going back to look!

It takes about a week or so to be able to see the hatchlings of a nest, but I can’t resist going a bit too early to look. I did this on Friday at the Terence Cardinal Cooke nest. I didn’t stay too long, and didn’t catch a feeding. But did see a very fidgety mother, who must have a little fluff ball (or two, or three) moving around underneath her now.

On Thursday morning before the rain started, I went to the Conservatory Garden of Central Park and waited for another feeding on the Terence Cardinal Cooke nest. It took some time for a feeding to occur. Luckily there are some nice benches in the garden. An American Kestrel made a brief visit to the same building as the nest as well, and I got to watch a pair of American Robins work on a nest.

Tahj Holiday let folks know that he had seen a feeding today at Terence Cardinal Cooke. I went up to see for myself in the afternoon.

Before the eggs hatch food is usually kept off the nest to reduce flies and other insects. The mother generally eats away from the nest, picking up food left by the father. So seeing food on the nest or seeing it delivered is a sign the nest has hatched.

And then there are feedings. You can’t see the recently hatched eyasses in the beginning. But you so see the mother tearing small pieces of food for the eyass and gently putting her head into the nest, tilting her head at a 45 degree angle. The eggs hatch a few days apart, so one or two eggs may not have hatched yet.

I saw both the food, a bird and a brown rat, and the feeding. Let’s hope they do well and we have fledglings in the North End of the Central Park in early June.

In a break in Monday’s rain, I went to visit the Terence Cardinal Cooke nest. I thought the nest should have hatched by now, but I would easily have gotten the dates wrong. New nesters sometimes sit down early before they lay their eggs.

I spent some time looking at the nest and found an eating spot I hadn’t seen before on Friday. It is on an air conditioner on a high row of windows on the north face of the New York Academy of Medicine at 103rd Street. The male ended up eating a pigeon there, and the female came over to eat the leftovers, while the male sat on the eggs until she finish her meal. The New York Academy of Medicine’s upper windows are visible from the nest at 105th. It’s the perfect place to share food.