Tompkins Square Park has had an upheaval this last week. A third new female has fought with Dora, resulting in Dora going back into rehab and the new female taking over! Plus there seems to be no sign of Nora.
This new female, which I’ll shorthand as F3, is making herself at home. Christo and F3 copulated at least ten times today. I guess they both know they’re late in the season!
A Wilson’s Snipe was on the west shore of The Pool, a body of water at the north end of Central Park. It’s a wonderful bird, and was out in the open, which was a real treat.
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I hadn’t had a chance to get up to 350 Central Park West for a few weeks and the nest looks great. The nest looks solid and in good shape. I caught up with the male near the Tennis Courts, and after watching the female on the nest, saw an exchange of the two hawks. The male took over egg warming duties and the female eat a pigeon left for her in a nearby tree. Then after she flew around for about five minutes, returned to the nest, and the male left.
310 West 72nd Street has to be the hardest nest to view in the city. It’s in a gutter at the top of the building and one can’t really see into the nest. But I was able to view an exchange of the two hawks, so I it would be safe to say the nest has eggs.
On the fourth floor level of the fire escape on a building on the northwest corner of 96th and Lexington Avenue, there is a new hawk nest. The female was brooding when I arrived and the male was briefly on a water tank before flying out of view. I stayed until after sunset, but didn’t see a nest exchange between the two hawks.
