2017 Nest Update 7
Updates from the last update:
- A new nest was found on West 72nd Street by rehabilitator, Bobby Horvath. He rescued one eyass, and one remains on the nest.
Washington Square After The Rain
Monday was rainy in New York City but it stopped in time for me to go to the park in the early evening. Both parents were on the Silver Building, but were out of view from each other. The female was on a high ledge on the southern corner and the male below a flagpole. The eyass slept most of the time, but it did do a few jump-flaps.
Another Fifth Avenue Feeding
Saturday was just another enjoyable day at the Fifth Avenue hawk bench. Three eyasses being fed by their mother.
Fifth Avenue Family
This evening I got to see the eyasses, Octavia and Pale Male. Pale Male caught a pigeon and spent thirty minutes plucking it before delivering it to the nest. Octavia returned to the nest after the food drop, but was not in a rush to feed the eyasses.
Grant’s Tomb
After reports of one, then two, eyasses on the Grant’s Tomb nest, it became apparent that there were three eyasses on the nest this week. I caught up with them and both there parents this evening.
J. Hood Wright Park
I finally had a chance to get up to J. Hood Wright Park and found the mother doing her best to keep her eyasses out of the sun. After the sun got lower, she took a break. The nest has three eyasses this year.
