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April 9, 2016December 15, 2020Red-tailed Hawk Nest Updates

2016 Manhattan Nests – Update 2

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Updates this week:

New nest inside the block bounded by 72nd Street, 71st Street, West End Avenue, Broadway
New nest at 8 East 96th Street
CCNY/Shepard Hall confirmed to be active
Death of female near Canal Street, and location for nest
Update on San Remo Pair

Late update: The Gorman Park Nest, which had been on a fire escape has been removed. Hawks are still being seen in Gorman/Ft. Tryon. Any news about the new nest location would be appreciated.

April 9, 2016December 22, 2020Other Red-tailed Hawks

8 East 96th Street

Central Park has a new nest at 8 East 96th Street, on the 11th Floor, on an air conditioner in the second window from Fifth Avenue. It’s technically not in the park but outside it by about 100 yards. This pair had laid an egg on 98th Street earlier in the season, and I had given up on them, assuming they were too inexperienced to get their act together this year. So, news of the new location via the NYU nest chat room community was a great surprise.

April 9, 2016December 22, 2020San Remo/Pinetum/AMNH Red-tailed Hawks

San Remo Pair

While the egg dropping was a shock to me, a day later the San Remo pair was back to business as usual. The male was seen eating a rodent in Strawberry Field, both hawks visited the nest briefly, and the pair copulated north of Bow Bridge.

April 9, 2016December 22, 2020Other Red-tailed Hawks

CCNY/Shepard Hall

One of the few nests I hadn’t seen a report about was the nest at the CCNY uptown campus on the Shepard Hall building. The female was sitting on the nest when I arrived and the male gave her a brief break. Manhattan is going to have lots of hatching nests by mid to late April!

April 7, 2016December 18, 2020San Remo/Pinetum/AMNH Red-tailed Hawks

San Remo

Tonight, I watched an egg roll out of a nest still under construction at the San Remo’s north tower at 75th and Central Park West. This pair was seen all winter on both the San Remo and the Beresford, and seemed to be having troubles choosing which ledge to use for their nest. For awhile they seemed to be bringing twigs to every ledge!

(The video may make it look like the female pushed the egg out of the nest. However, I think it rolled out on its own after she first saved it from rolling out. I suspect the ledge isn’t level to ensure that rain water runs away from the building.)

April 7, 2016December 22, 2020San Remo/Pinetum/AMNH Red-tailed Hawks

San Remo Egg Tragedy

I’ll post a longer video later tonight, but wanted to share this quickly. A pair of hawks establishing a nest on the north tower of the San Remo had a mishap tonight. While trying to position an egg, the female accidentally let it roll off the ledge.