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March 20, 2016December 22, 2020Eagles, Falcons, Hawks and Osprey, Riverside Park Red-tailed Hawks, St. John/Columbia Red-tailed Hawks

Surprise, Surprise

Thanks to some great detective work by Melody Andres, we now know that both the Grant’s Tomb (1) nest at 123rd Street and Riverside Drive and the 116th Street and Riverside Drive nest (2) are both active with two different pairs of hawks. These are close by to a Peregrine Falcon scrape (3) at Riverside Church, and close to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine nest site (4).

I had always thought Manhattan Hawk and Peregrine nests were like a checkerboard, with each taking different squares, but these three nests are so close together that it defies all that I had believed about nest positioning in the city.

Grant’s Tomb

116th Street and Riverside Drive

June 17, 2015December 25, 2020Riverside Park Red-tailed Hawks

West End Avenue Update

News has arrived that the West End Avenue nest has failed this year. Two eggs were laid, and one hatched. The eyass died, although I’m not sure at what age. This location and the nest locations nearby have had issues in years past, so this news while sad wasn’t that unexpected.

May 25, 2015December 24, 2020Riverside Park Red-tailed Hawks

Riverside/West End Update

The last time I visited the West End Avenue/Riverside Park nest, it looked like there had been a hatch. Today, it was clear based on a little head that kept showing up. We’ll figure out how many in a week or two.

May 17, 2015December 24, 2020Riverside Park Red-tailed Hawks

West End Avenue

A brief visit to the nest caught the female feeding, but it was unclear who and how many. I suspect the nest has just hatched and will need a visit in a week or two.

April 13, 2015December 24, 2020Riverside Park Red-tailed Hawks

Too Many Nests

We have so many Red-tailed Hawk nests in New York City, I can’t follow all of them anymore. But I did get to a few this weekend. I visited Sheep Meadow and Fifth Avenue on Saturday and all is good there. And I visited St. John and Riverside/West End on Sunday.

(For news of the uptown nests, visit the Morningside Hawks Blog.)

The St. John nest is in a new location on a turret above the statue of St. Peter on the rear of the Cathedral. It’s one saint to the left of St. Andrew, where the nest has been for a number of years. Construction of two new apartment buildings most likely encouraged the move. The new nest is not protected from the rain, so it will be interesting to see how things turn out.

The nest on West End Avenue looked fine. The female was visible for a few minutes about every twenty minutes.

June 1, 2014December 26, 2020Riverside Park Red-tailed Hawks

West End Avenue

I went exploring today to CCNY and West End Avenue.

No sign of eyasses at CCNY. The nest shows no slices, but does have a fresh set of leaves in it. Too confusing to figure out what’s up.

The West End Avenue nest has a single eyass. It turns out it had had three eggs, two of which has hatched, with one eyass dying shortly after hatching.