Octavia, Pale Male’s mate has been sitting on the Fifth Avenue nest since Sunday. A female Red-tailed Hawk can sit on the nest for a few days before laying an egg, so I can’t say for sure an egg has already been laid. But Ocatavia certainly looks to have started the process for the season.
Rosie continues to overnight on the nest, and the pair continues to copulate and work on the nest. However, we don’t have Rosie sitting during the day yet. This means we’re all set, but the eggs haven’t arrived just yet.
So, the Washington Square hawk watcher are all keeping an eye out for behavior changes. It looks like this year Pale Male and Octavia uptown may have beaten Rosie and Bobbie for the first eggs!
Tompkins Square Park after years of hosting juvenile hawks, finally looks to have its own pair of adults who have built a nice nest on top of an air conditioning unit at 9th Street and Avenue B. I had gone to visit last weekend but didn’t take any photographs as the hawks were inactive.
Today, I found two very active hawks. They copulated three times and flew around the park multiple times. The nest reminds me of the nest we had a number of years ago on Houston and Avenue D.
This pair is very, very easy to watch. This should be a fun year for the residents who live near the park.
I’ve begun using a Blackmagic Production Camera, which shoots in Ultra HD (four times the resolution of HD.) If you watch this video in full screen mode, you should have a great viewing viewing experience.
It was a beautiful day in Washington Square Park on Saturday, with warmer weather and plenty of sunshine. The hawks made lots of nest visits, with the hawks bringing paper and twigs to tidy up. They copulated on the Silver Building. Both hawks soared and soared above the park as if to celibrate the warm day.
Dusk on Friday was almost an exact replica of Thursday. Rosie hanging out on the nest and Bobby worrying about a Kestrel before going to roost on Silver. The only thing missing was a copulation.
Tonight at dusk both hawks were in Washington Square, one on the nest and one on buildings on the west side of the park. The one on the buildings, took off after an American Kestrel and returned.
The hawks then went over to Silver and copulated, with one of them roosting on the building for the night. Looks like we’ll have Rosie over-nighting on the nest soon.
