The hot weather made hawk watching kind of slow at Fifth Avenue. They eyasses did there best to stay cool, and the parents weren’t all that active. Pale Male perched on a nearby building for about half an hour and Octavia made one visit to the nest.
Thanks to a tip from the Morningside Heights blog who received the news from Gary Hansen, we have a new nest in Manhattan. (The blog also reports that an eyass has fledged at St. John on Friday.) The nest is at 3rd Avenue and 100th Street. Hawks had built a nest there last year, but no one reported it being successful. I had forgotten about it. So, it was great to see it a eyass close to fledging age on the nest.
With the hot weather the lone eyass at Washington Square Park spent the early part of the evening lying down on the cool stone of the library. I could only see it by walking to 9th Street and University Place. Luckily, as things cooled off, the eyass became more active and could be photographed.
The two eyasses at Fifth Avenue are looking a lot older than when I last saw them. They still need to grow longer tails and get some mature head feathers, but they’re looking almost grown up. Their mother left them alone for over an hour this evening, another sign they’re growing up.
Octavia was a little unsettled by two women using their balcony on the building just north of the nest. Octavia was a little concerned by the new folks in the area who were just enjoying the warm weather. She called out for about twenty minutes, voicing her displeasure at the new neighbors.
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Changes are the confirmation the 84th and West End nest has hatched and the viewing of a single eyass at CCNY. The Grant’s Tomb nest no longer has an eyass on the nest, but there are no signs of a fledgling, so the nest may have had an eyass death.
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Changes are the count of St. John the Divine eyasses, now 3, and the discovery of nest building activity uptown.
