Category: Eagles, Falcons, Hawks and Osprey

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Spring Is Coming

Some updates:

  • The Peregrine Falcons at 86th and West End look to be doing fine. The male hunted for the female this afternoon, and they made an exchange of food above the Broad Nosh Bagel shop on Broadway. She ate the prey on the church tower ledge. I read her band number and it is 77/BV, so she’s the same female as previously. She is from Du Bois Library, at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she hatched and was banded in 2019.
  • The El Dorado Peregrine Falcon pair have been seen often. Where they have a scrape is unknown. Keep an eye and ear out for where it might be.
  • The Peregrine Falcons at Riverside Church are back after a year off for construction.
  • The Red-tailed Hawk pair, with a new nest in the Wild West Playground in Central Park at 93rd, just off Central Park West, has the female sitting on the nest. Female hawks sometimes sit on their nests a few days before they lay eggs, so we’ll have to watch some more to figure out what’s going on. Anyone with an apartment higher than the nest may have a great view.
  • The San Remo pair are back to building a nest high up on the towers again. And a raccoon is still using their old nest to sleep in.
  • Octavia has been seen often along Fifth Avenue around 77th Street in the afternoon, on window she and Pale Male used to share.
Eagles, Falcons, Hawks and Osprey, Extralimital

Steller’s Sea-Eagle, Day 2

On Thursday, we went out again on a whale watching tour, this time run by Trinity Eco-Tours.
The morning was very foggy. So, no whales sightings and we needed to hug the coastline. But, we saw over 80 Bald Eagles who had congregated on the shoreline to eat the spawning Capelin. Just before our tour was over, I spotted the Steller’s high on a cliff.  We didn’t get much time with it, but I did get some nice photographs.

Eagles, Falcons, Hawks and Osprey, Extralimital

Steller’s Sea-Eagle

I’m on vacation in Newfoundland, Canada and while checking the the rare bird alerts for the Provence, I saw that the Steller’s Sea-Eagle was being seen in Trinity Bay. (This is the same bird, many New Yorker’s traveled to Maine to see earlier this year.)

I was staying in St. John and wasn’t sure if my non-birding husband would be up for a three hour trip, but he was! So we drove up today, checked into a very basic hotel for the night, and then made our way to Sea of Whales Adventures in Trinity. Their whale watching tours often have seen the Steller’s Sea-Eagle. After spending time with a Humpback Whale and her calf, we went to look for the Steller’s Sea-Eagle and she was exactly where they expected to find her.

We’re taking a second boat tomorrow and I hopefully will have some more photographs to share.

86th and WEA Peregrine Falcons, Eagles, Falcons, Hawks and Osprey

Up, Up and Away

While locals at 86th and West End report hearing and seeing the Peregrine Falcons early in the morning, when I’ve been going in the late afternoon it’s become much harder to find them.

On Monday afternoon, I had two fledglings on a water tank two blocks from the eyrie. The water tank is atop 160 West 86th Street, which is between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues.

Later, I had one fledgling on top of 535 West End Avenue being harassed by a Northern Mockingbird.