Rosie and Bobby are nesting again.  Rosie is sitting on the nest and it looks like she’s rolling at least one egg. 

The New York Times has withdrawn from sponsoring the web camera, so hawk watchers may need to come to the park in person if they want a live view of the hawks this year.

Update: 3/13/13, News comes from one of the chat moderators that NYU will be hosting a camera on their own this year.  The camera will be installed in a few weeks.

The adult female of Washington Square was hunting in the park this afternoon.  The park had lots of downed tree limbs and construction debris that came off of 2 Fifth Avenue.  The park is still closed to the public, but park employees were working hard to clean up the mess.  The area is still without power.

You would think perching on top of One Fifth Avenue would be a quiet place to watch the city, but tonight both a falcon and a Northern Mockingbird thought differently.

I started my day exploring Central Park without any luck, then Washington Square without any luck and finally found two hawks in Union Square.  For those unfamiliar with New York City Parks, Union Square is about eight blocks north of Washington Square and can be seen from that park’s nest.

In Union Square, I first spotted Rosie, the adult female, between the W and U of the W Union Sq sign, at Park Avenue South and 17th Street.   I then saw a young hawk hunting around the Square’s main lawn.  It was most likely Boo.  It caught a small rodent.  The hawk looked very healthy and has its mother’s enthusiasm for hunting, making at least ten passes at squirrels.

Red-tail Hawk fledglings wonder farther from home base as the summer progresses.  Hawks from the Washington Square family have been seen in Father Demo Square (southwest) and Union Square (north) this week.

So, I was surprised to find one one of the fledglings back in a familiar spot, the west side of Washington Square Park.   The fledgling was doing some haphazard hunting, moving at least forty Rock Pigeons over and over again.

I only found one Red-tailed Hawk in the Washington Square Park area this evening.  A juvenile was on the north side of One Fifth Avenue.  I’m afraid we’ve begun the period where the youngsters are going to be harder and harder to locate!