Last Monday, I caught up with the adult female of Tompkins Square Park in the late afternoon. She’s much easier to find now that her kids are gone. These hawks are multi-denominational. They love to perch on the crosses of three different churches in the neighborhood.
In the late summer, the adult male was the most frequent visitor to Tompkins Square park. The female was much harder to find.
As fall has arrived, both hawks are spending more time together in the park. On Saturday afternoon, they spent about 30 minutes together in a Gingko tree on the east side of the park.
The adult male of the Tompkins Square Park was hunting near the pool of the park, before he went to the flagpole and then to a tree to roost for the evening.
Just a glipse of a hawk tonight at Tompkins Square Park…
Tonight, I found an adult Red-tailed Hawk on the towers of the Con Edison plant at Avenue C and 13th Street, who could have been the Adult Female of the Tompkins Square Park pair.
Later in the evening the Adult Male was in Tompkins Square Park, caught and ate two small rodents and then went to the roost tree he’s been using the last week. There he did something I’ve never seen before, he was fascinated by a bat. A Red-tailed adult usually sits fairly still, but tonight this one moved his head all over the place keeping track of the bat as it caught insects in the SW corner of the park.
Tonight, we saw the adult male hawk and a fledgling. The father still comes to the park each evening, but at this point doesn’t need to hunt for any of the fledglings. The youngster, who caught a pigeon (but didn’t eat it) kept us on our toes flying around the park as well as hanging out of fire escapes on building surrounding the park.
