Three Eyasses at 100th Street and 3rd Avenue
After a few weeks, eyasses grow up enough to be fully seen on a nest. So, at 100th Street and 3rd Avenue, what started out as one eyass being seen has become three. They look great and were fun to watch.
Category: Upper East Side Hawks
100th and Third Avenue Has Hatched
The 100th Street and 3rd Avenue nest has hatched. I saw a feeding Tuesday afternoon. The eyasses are too small to count just yet.
Hatch Watch
I’ve been looking at nests near Central Park and haven’t seen any sign of hatches. I’ve looked at 927 Fifth Avenue, 350 Central Park West, St. John the Divine, and 100th Street and Third Avenue. (Since early feedings are about two hours apart and the parents still sit on top of the new hatched eyasses, there is a possibility any of these nests has hatched without me knowing.)
I look forward to taking another look this weekend at these nests. Below are two pictures of the 350 Central Park West nest and two pictures of the 100th Street and Third Avenue nest.
100th and Third Avenue
The Upper East Side female and her new mate have returned to the nest she used three years ago at 10oth and Third Avenue. (Many of you may remember her from her nest last year at 96th and Lexington, where she lost her mate and had a fledgling with frounce. They year before that, the pair tried to nest at 95th and Lexington.)
When they moved, two new apartment buildings were being built on Third Avenue. I wonder if now, with the construction long completed, the female felt comfortable returning to Third Avenue.
Settling Down At 96th
For the last two days, there has been one real fledgling roosting and spending time off the nest and two reluctant fledglings who keep returning to the nest. This is unusual but in some ways makes sense. The visits across the street and to the shed might be considered branching and not traditional fledging. The longer it takes to leave the nest the safer it is, so any delay is welcome.
In any case tonight two young hawks were on the nest and the other was on a windowsill on 95th Street. The mother was on a cell tower but moved to the 95th Street building. In both places the mother was harassed by an American Kestrel.
Feeding and Food Fight on 95th Street
When I arrived, all three fledglings were on the nest railing sitting side by side. Then one took off for a building on 95th Street. It landed a floor below the mother, and it took a bit of time for it to figure out it could use the stairs.
I thought wow, how smart of the mother to bring food there. She’s teaching the fledgling where the next meals will be and bringing the fledgling to a quieter location. But in watching my video, it might have been just that the mother was feeding herself on the building and the fledgling came in and stole the meal. At some point in the middle of the fledgling eating, the mother tried to get the pigeon back. I’ll never know which scenario was right, but it shows how easily you can get the story wrong.
In addition to the issues with the meal, the persistent and annoying American Kestrel was causing trouble and if you watch the video a house sparrow couple were a bit worried as they had a nest under where the eating took place.
