Only one eyass remains on the nest at West End Avenue/Riverside Drive. It’s unclear if we had a death or a premature fledge. Given the dates when it disappeared, a death is most likely. We’ll know later in the season depending on how many fledglings end up in the park.
Update 6-15-2003: I received an email that one of the eyasses did die after two days of rain a few weeks ago.
All of the eyasses have fledged at St. John the Divine. This afternoon two were on or near the fences at the parking lot and the third was in a windows of a St. Luke’s Hospital building across the street. Both parents were keeping an eye on all of them.
It seems the eyasses on Fifth Avenue are in no rush to leave the nest. An afternoon watching them was very relaxed.
There were only two brief moments of excitement. First an eyass in a bid to steal food from its siblings ends up knocking it out of the nest with Pale Male diving after the food. Then an eyass gets it foot stuck in some pigeon spikes.
On a rainy night we watched the Fifth Avenue eyasses jump and flap on the nest. We didn’t see a feeding, so we wondered if the parents are trying to encourage a fledge. It will be stormy on Friday, so I suspect Saturday will be an exciting day.
The Fifth Avneue nest has three eyasses that are just about to fledge. On Wednesday night however, they looked in no rush to go! They should be off by this weekend however.
While I only saw two fledglings this evening, lots of hawk watchers got to see all three. One spent most of the day on the North East side of the park and others on the buildings south of the Silver building.
I got to see two fledglings and the parents. It was fun because one made some long flights including one near the nest onto the top of the library. I’m always amazed by how quickly the fledglings adapt to their life in the city.
