Con Edison and a Bat

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.

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