927 5th Avenue Red-tailed Hawks, Other Red-tailed Hawks, Southern Central Park Red-tailed Hawks, St. John/Columbia Red-tailed Hawks

Fordham Hawks make the tree to building nest move

Rob Jett reports on his excellent The City Birder blog, that the Fordham Campus Red-tailed Hawks have made the move from tree nesting to building nesting.

This makes the fourth New York City building nest I’ve heard reports of:

Fifth Avenue
Bronx Fire Escape (2004) (Daily News, NYC DEP)
Central Park South
Fordham Campus

Update: I forgot about the St. John the Divine (200?-?) nest, which would make five.  If you know of other building nests in NYC, please leave a comment.

Owls

Friday, 3-3-06

The female.  Still no sign of the male.
Who’s this?  I just dismiss it as a blurry image of the female.
The female by streetlight.
Lots of preening before flying off.
Her bucked tooth beak.
Owls

Wednesday, 3-1-06

The third night of only the female.  Was the male badly injured?  Did we get the sexes wrong and are they nesting?  A mystery.

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Lots of preening this evening.
She lands on the wall that separates Central Park from the city, and goes into the city to hunt this evening.
It was a crisp winter evening.