The young Fifth Avenue hawks look great.  They should be leaving the nest in a week or so.  All we have to do is watch and wait.

While they still have some growing up to do before leaving the nest, the eyasses look more and more grown up every day.  They’re eating on their own now. Pale Male on the nest in the beginning of the video, followed by Octavia.

Saturday was just another enjoyable day at the Fifth Avenue hawk bench.  Three eyasses being fed by their mother.

This evening I got to see the eyasses, Octavia and Pale Male.  Pale Male caught a pigeon and spent thirty minutes plucking it before delivering it to the nest.  Octavia returned to the nest after the food drop, but was not in a rush to feed the eyasses.

This evening, after doing a little birding, I watched a feeding at the Fifth Avenue nest.  It’s wonderful to see a predator be so gentle with her offspring.

I sat on the “hawk bench” on Sunday afternoon and enjoyed the view of the Pale Male and Octavia’s nest, as well as the many observers of the nest.  After all these years, the nest continues to delight tourists and locals alike.