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.