I made a trip to Randalls Island on Sunday afternoon.  The nest is in the field lights of Field 10, just north of Icahn Stadium.  I found two eyasses on the nest and the mother on a light tower of Icahn Stadium.

The new nest in Fort Washington Park, may be a replacement for the J. Hood Wright nest.  It’s right next to Henry Hudson Parkway, so it will be interesting to see how the fledglings do.  It has the benefit of a no-man’s land between the Parkway and the railroad tracks, but also the danger.  I saw the female on the nest and the male, who chased out a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk.

Randalls Island has had a nest in the lights of Field 10 just north of Icahn Stadium for a number of years.  When there were Peregrine Falcons on the hospital, I think we skipped a year, but otherwise the pair has breed consistently over the last few years.

This year was no exception.  The female was on the nest and in the warm sun left the eggs for a few minutes to take a stretch.

On Thursday afternoon a young Red-tailed Hawk was eating a squirrel on a rock south of the Azalea Pond in Central Park’s Ramble.  It is an interesting bird with one red tail feather.  We usually see the brown tail feathers of a juvenile change one by one over the summer to adult red feathers, so this one red feather is unusual.

Title says it all, “Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk Eats A Norway Rat”.  Just south of Trump Ice Skating Rink.  Like many young hawks, this one dropped his rat while eating it.