Urban Hawks

Thanks to a photo from someone who lives in the building where the nest on 72nd Street between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive, the nest is active with three eyasses.  I confirmed the nest was active this afternoon.

I was happy to receive a report from Randalls Island.  The nest is active with three eyasses.  Great news with the failures of nests around Central Park.

It continues to be difficult to cover Manhattan, but news is coming in about some nests.

• A new nest has been confirmed in Fort Tryon Park.  On the Greenway just north of the Ft Tryon exit 16.  I couldn’t tell from the pictures I was sent but it looks like two or three eyasses are on the nest, still white with pin feathers coming in.
• After some mixed signals, it looks like the St. John the Divine nest has failed.
• The 350 Central Park West nest did not hatch and the parents have stopped brooding.

It has been very hard this year to get details of the Manhattan nests.  I’m not traveling by public transportation, so I can only report first hand on the nests I can walk to from my home.  But I do have some news:

• Feedings have been seen in Inwood Hill Park.
• The Fort Washington nest was left unattended for an hour on a cold day raising concerns that it might have failed.
• Behavior changes make it likely that the St. John nest has hatched, but eyasses haven’t been seen yet.
• Both of the Central Park nests, 350 Central Park West are at least a week overdue.  It is likely that both have failed.
• Tompkins Square Park has three eyasses and one even has pin feathers already.