I met James O’Brien up at Broadway Bridge to look at Peregrines and then go off to Inwood Hill Park. We’re both doing our late winter/early spring check up on our favorite local raptor nests.
We found both Peregrines. One on the stadium lights of a Columbia University playing field, and the other on the north tower of the bridge.
I spend a half hour at the Riverside Park nest. I had missed all of the morning’s excitement, three Bald Eagles.
I did get to see the male eat lunch and the female enjoy the sunlight.
Well, he did a good job trying to give us the slip tonight, but we ended up finding him about ten minutes after the fly out. There’s a chance he also led us to another cavity…
Except for a visit by a juvenile Red-tail with a Squirrel, tonight was the same as the last few nights. One owl out after it gets very dark. Here are tonight’s photographs.
I’ve been troubled all week by the disappearance of the male from the St. John’s pair and the news of his replacement by a younger hawk. It finally sunk in, when I got to see the new St. John the Divine male this afternoon.
The male in different light. It’s going to take some practice to tell the male and the female apart.
I went down to see how the nest was doing on Houston Street, on Saturday. It is starting to look like a real nest, so I think we can definitely call this Manhattan Nest No. 7. I didn’t see either hawk, but a photographer and a local confirmed nest building activity earlier in the day. Rumor has it that one of the hawks is banded.
