Thanks to great detective work by Nina Wolf and other birders in Riverside Park, the new nest site of the Riverside Hawks has been discovered.  I was able to confirm the nest location on Saturday, but wasn’t able to see the hawks in the nest until Sunday morning.

The nest is on a traffic island at the next exit north from their old nest.  It is on a strip, that due to heavy traffic, is cut off to humans, dogs and raccoons.  Best of all, there are a row of benches for any and all hawk watchers to sit on!

Update: March 22nd.  The Hawks ended up choosing a nest site a few blocks north of the Boat House Café.  This is not unusual.  Hawks may build an alternate nest, and then not use it.