The surviving Riverside Park fledgling seems to be doing fine.  It has an every widening area that it flies around in, which is giving the hawk watchers some exercise.  (I learned today, that the fledgling that died Monday was hit by a car, not a truck as I had previously been told.)

Tonight the fedgling spent a great deal of time on the Riverside Drive wall.  Some cell phone camera carrying paparazzi got a little close, but no harm was done, although it did interrupt the fledgling’s hunting.

I got to see, what for me is always a treat, a fledgling fall asleep.  It always seems to happens in a nice order.  The robins go to sleep, everything gets quiet, the hawk preens for a few minutes and then falls asleep.  And then I smile.