Category: Southern Central Park Red-tailed Hawks

927 5th Avenue Red-tailed Hawks, Other Red-tailed Hawks, Southern Central Park Red-tailed Hawks, St. John/Columbia Red-tailed Hawks

Fordham Hawks make the tree to building nest move

Rob Jett reports on his excellent The City Birder blog, that the Fordham Campus Red-tailed Hawks have made the move from tree nesting to building nesting.

This makes the fourth New York City building nest I’ve heard reports of:

Fifth Avenue
Bronx Fire Escape (2004) (Daily News, NYC DEP)
Central Park South
Fordham Campus

Update: I forgot about the St. John the Divine (200?-?) nest, which would make five.  If you know of other building nests in NYC, please leave a comment.

Southern Central Park Red-tailed Hawks

Nest Building On C.P.S.

After arriving at Central Park South around 2:15 p.m. on President’s Day, it took me awhile to find our two Trump Parc Red-tailed Hawks.  I finally found them both on the northeast corner of the Trump International Hotel and Towers, at 61st and Central Park West.

Charlotte is on the left, Junior on the right.
Junior, the male leaves the building.
Charlotte, the female moves twenty feet south on the Trump International.
Charlotte then moves to the eastern Hampshire House chimney.
Junior reappears and dives down near the restrooms at 61st and Central Park West. I rush over from 7th Avenue to find him, but when I got over to Central Park West, he was already soaring and gaining altitude. I though he had been hunting, but discover that instead he has torn off a tree branch.
The branch gets placed on the nest.
The couple is then reunited on the Hampshire House chimney.
Spring is in the air.