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March 18, 2021March 19, 2021Other Red-tailed Hawks

New Red-tailed Hawk Pair

I got an email for Ben Cacace yesterday about Red-tailed Hawk activity on the Upper East Side. He had seen hawks bringing twigs to a Con Edison smokestack at their steam plant that takes up the block of 74th to 75th Street between the FDR Drive and York Avenue.

I checked it out as soon as could. The hawks are using the middle ring of the three catwalks around the tower. It looks as though they have only just started to bring materials to the smokestack. The position of the potential nest is just a few degrees counter clockwise from the ladder on the west southwest side of the smokestack.

Sometimes hawks change nest locations at the last minute so this isn’t guaranteed to be the final nest location. But if they do end up using this spot, it will be a bit difficult to watch. The best view will be from the roofs of nearby apartment buildings.

It will also be an interesting summer if they do have a successful nest. John Jay seems like too small a park to bring up fledglings. It wonder if the territory includes part of Roosevelt Island, and if they will bring the fledglings across the river over sometime over the summer?

A. Potential Nest Site
B. Perch
C. Perch
D. John Jay Park

December 27, 2020December 29, 2020Eagles, Falcons, Hawks and Osprey, Other Red-tailed Hawks, Owls

Neighborhood Watch With The Barred Owl

Tonight the Barred Owl used the time after fly out to do a “neighborhood watch” and investigate two roosting raptors, a Cooper’s Hawk and a Red-tailed Hawk. The juvenile Cooper’s Hawk decided to fly out of its Spruce tree roost, but the Red-tailed Hawk stayed put. After investigating the neighbors, the owl went back to its normal woods. Sadly, these encounters were impossible to photograph.

December 21, 2020December 28, 2020Eagles, Falcons, Hawks and Osprey, Other Red-tailed Hawks, Owls

Central Barred Owl And Other Raptors

While I wasn’t able to film the encounters, I tonight was the first time I noticed the Barred Owl investigating roosting hawks. It stopped by a roosting Cooper’s Hawk, who I heard call. And then I saw it in the same tree of a Red-tailed Hawk who also called.

The evening was also the conjuction of Jupiter and Saturn, which I was able to watch from the top of the path near the Polish Statue around 80th Street.

September 21, 2020December 24, 2020Other Red-tailed Hawks

Ramble Red-tailed Hawk

While this hawk was in Pale Male’s territory, I don’t think this hawk was Pale Male. Pale Male has a clean white neck and his chest pattern reminds me of Oak leaves. This hawk while having a light belly band, seemed a bit different. The markings are more like paint drops.

No mater who it is, I’m glad to see one less rat in the Ramble.

January 31, 2020December 22, 2020Eagles, Falcons, Hawks and Osprey, Other Red-tailed Hawks

Three Raptor Day

If you told me before I started bird watching in Central Park that it was easy to have a three raptor day, I would have called you a liar. But in the winter it’s fairly easy. On Thursday, I had a Cooper’s Hawk eating a house sparrow, a Red-tailed Hawk eating a Rock Pigeon and a Peregrine Falcon. All within a block of the tennis courts.

New York, New York, what a wonderful place to live and bird.

November 16, 2019December 27, 2020927 5th Avenue Red-tailed Hawks, Other Red-tailed Hawks, San Remo/Pinetum Red-tailed Hawks

Central Park Hawks

November is a great time to watch hawks in Central Park. Migrants are coming through, both adults and juveniles and resident Red-tailed adults are more visible as the trees loose their leaves. Here’s a group of images taken over the last two weeks, from the south end to the north.