It continues to be difficult to cover Manhattan, but news is coming in about some nests.

• A new nest has been confirmed in Fort Tryon Park.  On the Greenway just north of the Ft Tryon exit 16.  I couldn’t tell from the pictures I was sent but it looks like two or three eyasses are on the nest, still white with pin feathers coming in.
• After some mixed signals, it looks like the St. John the Divine nest has failed.
• The 350 Central Park West nest did not hatch and the parents have stopped brooding.

It has been very hard this year to get details of the Manhattan nests.  I’m not traveling by public transportation, so I can only report first hand on the nests I can walk to from my home.  But I do have some news:

• Feedings have been seen in Inwood Hill Park.
• The Fort Washington nest was left unattended for an hour on a cold day raising concerns that it might have failed.
• Behavior changes make it likely that the St. John nest has hatched, but eyasses haven’t been seen yet.
• Both of the Central Park nests, 350 Central Park West are at least a week overdue.  It is likely that both have failed.
• Tompkins Square Park has three eyasses and one even has pin feathers already.

Two updates:

• The Tompkins Square Park nest has hatched.  Details are on the Laura Goggin Photography blog.
• The San Remo pair is back to building a nest on the San Remo, abandoning The Majestic nest.

Governor’s Island will remain closed in May, so it will be hard to figure out what’s happening on the newly built nest.

Two updates:

1. Thanks to detective work by the Morningside Hawks blog, it has come clear that the male, that was rescued but died shortly there after from Morningside Park, was not the male from the St. John pair.  The pair is currently brooding.
2. The Washington Square Park male has found a new mate and they have been copulating on One Fifth Avenue.  The camera is currently offline, but it will be interesting to see if they try to nest.

Three updates:

• I was able to confirm the 350 Central Park West is brooding.
• Once again hawks have been seen bringing nesting material to the Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center, at 106th and Fifth Avenue.
• I saw the pair of hawks that hang out around Grand Army Plaza today, on various buildings, with one eating on The Plaza Hotel, and the pair copulating on 9 West 57th.

Sadly, the female of the Washington Square Park nest disappeared sometime in the late morning on Thursday and hasn’t been seen since.  The nest has been abandoned. 

My thoughts go out to all of those folks who watched the live camera feed.  I know for many folks isolated in their apartments it had been a blessing.

The female is presumed dead.  There is a very small chance she is injured or trapped somewhere, but it is unlikely.  NYU staff have checked nearby roofs.