I went by around noon today, and didn’t see the hawks but returned around 4 pm. I thought I had struck out, but after about twenty minutes, the male appeared. He circled around the nest with a twig, but got more interested in scaring up all the pigeons that feed on the horse feed just inside the park at Sixth Avenue.

He ended up perching in Hallett Nature Sanctuary for about ten minutes before leaving. I caught up with him again as he went to the nest.

I’m a bit confused about what’s going on as I had been seeing the female near the nest each day. I haven’t seen her in the last two day. I don’t think she’s on the nest yet, so it will be interesting to see what happens over the next few days.

Today, most of the activity was on the Trump Parc building, which in 2005 was the site of a successful Red-tailed Hawk nest. The female used a few perches for most of the afternoon, moving around on the various lighting fixtures. In the early evening, I found the male eating on a light near the female. After he was done eating, they copulated. They both flew off in the direction of The Mall, which is where I suspect they are roosting.

Today, I got to see lots of action from hawks building a nest on the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. When I arrived the male had just brought a rodent to the female of the pair on the very top of the hotel. They moved to the 37th Floor of the Trump Parc building and the male left leaving the female. She coughed up a casting and then ate the rodent.

While she was eating, the male when out and got a branch and brought it to the nest. I left the area and explored the park for a few hours.

When I returned, I saw the male in a low branch just inside the park at the southeast corner entrance to the park. He caught a rodent and then flew to a tree in Hallett Sanctuary where he ate. Then he returned to the same tree he had been hunting in earlier.

In NYC, mid-March is nest building and egg laying season. Today, I saw a Red-tailed Hawk visit a window ledge on the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at Central Park South and Sixth Avenue. The ledge had twigs, but wasn’t a fully built nest.

This may be the same pair that build a poorly designed nest on the St. Regis where they then laid eggs and lost them last year. That pair also brought sticks to a window at the Peninsula Hotel, last year. If this is the same pair, they sure do love expensive hotel room windows!

The window is above a shield flanked by two cherubs. Pale Male and Octavia’s nest also has two cherubs.

I’ve been getting messages on Facebook from an employee of the St. Regis Hotel about a hawk attempting to nest on the building. It seemed like an early attempt by a young pair, and all signs were that they weren’t going to nest. An egg abandoned on a terrace, a poorly built nest, etc. So, when I was told, a hawks was sitting on the poorly built nest, I was skeptical.

So, much to my surprise on my way home on Friday, I saw a hawk apparently brooding on the nest that had been constructed in an oval window in the top, left corner of the façade that faces Fifth Avenue.

Update: I received word that later on Friday, it looks like the nest failed, with an egg being found on a terrace a few floors down. Establishing a new nest can be difficult. I’ll know more in a few days.

While walking through Grand Army Plaza in Manhattan (59th and Fifth), I heard the male crying that he had food.  I couldn’t find him, but heard him on the The Plaza Hotel.  He went down 58th and around the corner down Fifth, circling before landing on the roof of Bergdorf Goodman’s.  He then circled and circled before landing on a very high building roof at 55th and Fifth.  He left the pigeon there before spending about ten minutes circling 9 West 57th.

I haven’t seen the female for about a week.  Where, oh where is the nest!