Tahj Holiday let folks know that he had seen a feeding today at Terence Cardinal Cooke. I went up to see for myself in the afternoon.

Before the eggs hatch food is usually kept off the nest to reduce flies and other insects. The mother generally eats away from the nest, picking up food left by the father. So seeing food on the nest or seeing it delivered is a sign the nest has hatched.

And then there are feedings. You can’t see the recently hatched eyasses in the beginning. But you so see the mother tearing small pieces of food for the eyass and gently putting her head into the nest, tilting her head at a 45 degree angle. The eggs hatch a few days apart, so one or two eggs may not have hatched yet.

I saw both the food, a bird and a brown rat, and the feeding. Let’s hope they do well and we have fledglings in the North End of the Central Park in early June.