After lots of rain, I was finally able to go hawk watching today.  I spent time at Pale Male and Octavia’s nest on Fifth Avenue.  Octavia was with the two eyasses, and Pale Male was on the Carlyle. The bird attacking Pale Male is a Northern Mockingbird.

I visited the Model Boat Pond at dusk to listen for bats, and was able to detect two species, Big Brown Bat and Silver-haired Bat.  But before it got dark, I saw Octavia return to the nest and got brief glimpses of the two eyasses.

The Fifth Avenue nest’s eyasses are still a bit too small to see clearly.  It may well turn out that there are only two.  This evening’s meal was gray squirrel.

Update 5/10/18: It looks like we have only two eyasses this year.

Pale Male and Octavia’s nest was very active this afternoon.  Two eyasses (nestlings) were visible at one point.  A feeding lasted a very, very long time, so there is a chance we have an unseen younger eyass that remains too small to be seen.

I’ve uploaded two videos, a short one that lets you see the two eyasses if you look closely, and a standard lengthy one.

Reports from the hawk bench are there at least two eyasses this year.  They saw the oldest briefly in the afternoon, while another eyass was being fed.  I hope to be able to capture “baby pictures” this weekend.

When the eggs hatch, which takes place one egg at a time, it takes about a week more to see the eyasses on the Fifth Avenue nest.  The only clue that they’ve hatched are feedings and changes in behavior of both Pale Male and Octavia. 

Today, an hour and a half apart, it appeared that Octavia was feeding an eyass. I’ll let you judge the video for yourself, but it looks like we may have good news.