I finally had a chance to get up to J. Hood Wright Park and found the mother doing her best to keep her eyasses out of the sun.  After the sun got lower, she took a break.  The nest has three eyasses this year.

I finally got up to CCNY to find two hawks hanging out and not brooding.  What was interesting was one was young, less than a year old, with a brown tail.  It will be interesting to see if anything comes of this nest in 2017 or if we’ll need to wait until 2018?

I went down to City Hall Park to look for the Western Tanager.  I saw brief glimpses of it, but also got to see two Peregrine Falcons chase a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk.  Here’s a few pictures of the Red-tailed Hawk.

I got a text from Ranger Rob Mastrianni today saying that the J. Hood Wright Park nest had four eyasses in their nest.  That’s very, very rare.  So, I took the A train up to 175th Street and took a look this evening.  I got to see all four of them.  It’s a good thing I went today, since one of them looks ready to leave nest. 

I love these surprises.  When the eyasses were younger most folks could only tell that there were one or two eyasses on the nest.

As many of you know, a female hawk died in the Chinatown/City Hall area earlier this season.  The necropsy results for the bird has come back, with a verdict of “Poisoning – Anticoagulant rodenticide”.  Laura Goggin reports on her blog that the male has found a new mate but poisoning continues near where the pair have decided to nest.  This means we could easily have another hawk death, just like the first if no action is taken.

Please take a few minutes to read Laura’s latest report and if you have time write a polite letter to the City Council member for the area.  Details are on Laura’s blog.