Rosie continues to overnight on the nest, and the pair continues to copulate and work on the nest.  However, we don’t have Rosie sitting during the day yet.  This means we’re all set, but the eggs haven’t arrived just yet.

So, the Washington Square hawk watcher are all keeping an eye out for behavior changes.  It looks like this year Pale Male and Octavia uptown may have beaten Rosie and Bobbie for the first eggs!

It was a beautiful day in Washington Square Park on Saturday, with warmer weather and plenty of sunshine.  The hawks made lots of nest visits, with the hawks bringing paper and twigs to tidy up.  They copulated on the Silver Building.  Both hawks soared and soared above the park as if to celibrate the warm day.

Dusk on Friday was almost an exact replica of Thursday. Rosie hanging out on the nest and Bobby worrying about a Kestrel before going to roost on Silver.  The only thing missing was a copulation.

Tonight at dusk both hawks were in Washington Square, one on the nest and one on buildings on the west side of the park.  The one on the buildings, took off after an American Kestrel and returned.

The hawks then went over to Silver and copulated, with one of them roosting on the building for the night.  Looks like we’ll have Rosie over-nighting on the nest soon.

I got confirmation on Wednesday, that my interpretation of the Parks Department and Mayor's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting regulations, that tripods may be used without a permit in all city parks, was correct.  So, I'll be able to continue in filming in Washington Square Park.

I am still concerned about the ambiguity of the Parks Department's regulations and their website pages surounding photography.  Every photographer I know with a large telephoto lens has been hassled at least once by a Parks Department employee without cause.  I have to decide if I want to collect enough documentation to prove that what I experienced last Sunday was the norm for photographers in city parks, and pursue the matter futher.

But for now the good news is that I'm safe to photograph Rosie and Bobby in the park again.

Before I was asked to stop photographing in Washington Square Park, I had a number of nice sightings of Bobby and Rosie both on the nest and on buildings to the east.  Overnights and egg laying should be around the corner.