I wasn’t able to photograph the activity at the nest, but was able to watch the San Remo/Pinetum pair copulate on The Beresford, and bring nesting material to the nest on Monday afternoon. It looks like they are on track to nest again. It’s good news as folks had seen a raccoon sleeping in the nest a few months ago and there was some tentative nest building on the San Remo in January.

The open question is what is happening in the north end of the park. I saw two Red-tails over The Pool engaged in a courtship flight, but haven’t seen where they are nesting. Hopefully, the North End Birders will find it.

Update: I just heard from John Baisley, an Urban Park Ranger, that the Terrence Cardinal Cooke pair has moved their nest two blocks south to the southern end of the Museum of the City of New York building.

One of the fledglings delighted the children and adults in the Diana Ross Playground on Friday afternoon.

When I arrived a playful Red-tailed Hawk fledgling from the Pinetum nest was making lots of hunting attempts in Seneca Village before moving up to Summit Rock, and then moving on to the Diana Ross playground. It ate a Brown Rat and was joined by the other fledgling. Both of them entertained the children in the playground stopping on a little roof and a park bench. The two of them were next to each other for a brief time and both look great.

At any nest site, as the weeks progress the fledglings start to explore a larger and larger area. One of the Pinetum fledglings has started to use an area south of the nest. It’s using the fruit trees south of Sparrow Rock, the dense forest between Tanner’s Spring and Summit Rock and the trees around Winterdale Arch.

I caught up with the adult male and one of the Red-tailed Hawk fledglings on Tuesday afternoon. Both were about 200 yards south of the nest. The old fledgling is being more active lately, which is fun to watch, but makes it harder to find.

The older fledgling was given a Brown Rat by its father, but dropped it before I arrvied to watch it. Just after I arrived, it went to the ground and picked it up and then proceeded to eat it on three different branches in two trees. After watching both fledglings just perch after the rainstorm on Saturday, it was nice to watch one of them eat and fly around.