A quick ride on the A Train to 145th Street and a short walk through a wonderful area of restored Brownstones brings you to Shepard Hall on the uptown C.C.N.Y. campus. This year there are two eyasses on the nest.
This Gothic building yields another wonderful nest location in Manhattan. For more detailed information and photographs of this nest, see The Origin of the Species blog.
After a stormy afternoon, there was a break in the rain that allowed a quick trip to Fifth Avenue. All three eyasses looked healthy and looked closer to fledgling. They were eating scraps of food on their own, and one even tried to still the family meal from it’s siblings when Pale Male delivered dinner.
While they have about a week or two more on the nest, the eyasses are starting to become more and more active. They’re exercising their wings and enjoying the long window ledge.
The Riverside Park hawks have eyasses that are old enough that they can easily be seen now. It makes it much easier to watch the nest. Tonight there were a number of visits by both parents, and a Northern Mockingbird harassed both of them.
With light rain, the Fifth Avenue nest didn’t have much excitement while I was there late in the afternoon. But eventually, the eyasses became active and I got to see how much they had grown.
The Washington Square eyasses are growing up fast. I didn’t see them for a few days, and they’ve changed greatly. Come to the park and see them on the nest before it’s too late!
