The three Houston street eyasses are looking more and more mature each day.  They look healthy and well attended to by their parents.

The Houston Street family is doing well.  There are three eyasses.  When I arrived the adult female was using her tail and wing feathers to provide shade for her offspring.  They ended up being restless and after about twenty minutes, she feed them.

The female is now brooding on the Lower East Side.  Locals report that she seems to be free of the plastic bag that was on her leg on Friday.  Luckily, the male picked up and send to a rehabber a few blocks north of the nest, turns out not to be part of this pair.

I received an email that suggested there was a rush to read her band number.  It was suggested that the school be contacted so someone could look out the window.  I would suggest restraint and wait until the juveniles fledge.

However, if someone wanted to contact the school to help them build an art and science curriculum based on the hawks that might be fantastic.  Hawk Mountain already has a number of coloring books, study guides and teaching outlines.  I had hoped that New York City Audubon already had a curriculum for an inner city school but they don’t seem to have one.

Here are some pictures of the male on two buildings and the female’s tail, which is the best picture she would give me in the late afternoon.

There was about an hour in the morning to go hawk watching on the Lower East Side.  The nest is moving along.  The couple looks young, so we should be prepared for this first attempt not to be successful.

These hawks are looking much darker than usual, since they’re wet.

I went down to see how the nest was doing on Houston Street, on Saturday.   It is starting to look like a real nest, so I think we can definitely call this Manhattan Nest No. 7.  I didn’t see either hawk, but a photographer and a local confirmed nest building activity earlier in the day.  Rumor has it that one of the hawks is banded.

Earlier this winter, when there was a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk in Tompkins Square Park, I received a tip that there was a hawk nest at Houston and the East River Drive.  It seemed like a logical spot, so now that nesting season has begun I went down to take a look.

While walking east down Houston Street towards the river, I saw a Red-tail with a twig flying down Houston Street being followed down the street by it’s mate.  It landed on an air conditioner cage on the top floor of a local school, two blocks from the river.  Two air conditioner cages had twigs, so it look like the pair hasn’t quite decided what to do yet.  We’ll know in a few weeks.  Imagine the potential education the elementary school class may receive!

After working on the nest, both hawks perched on the Lillian Wald Settlement, a building run by the NYC Housing Authority.