A Brief Break For Rosie
An eleven minute clip from the Washington Square web camera of Rosie taking a little break Sunday morning.
Washington Square Has A Second Hatch
The second egg hatched on the Washington Square nest today. While the web camera watchers got a show, there wasn’t much to see from the ground in the afternoon. Bobby visited the nest and there were two feedings.
Best and Worst of Times
On the day that the Washington Square Hawks had their first egg hatch, the Central Park West hawks gave up on their 322 Central Park West nest.
Tonight, I first found one of the hawks on the back of 350 CPW, on a ledge on 94th Street. The hawk left the perch and when I got back to CPW, the two hawks were copulating on a building on 93rd Street. Then the female went off to a tree in the park.
We’ll see what happens. The hawks look to be building a new nest on a different location on 350 CPW.
Central Park West Drama
After receiving reports that the Central Park West had been taken down, I went to the park today to look for the hawks. You can imagine my surprise when I found a hawks sitting on a slightly smaller nest than I had seen on the weekend. (It’s not clear if the female has laid eggs just yet, or will be in the next few days.)
When I got home, folks on the WSP chat room directed me to the Pale Male Irregulars website. It had news of destruction of the nest by the construction company working on the façade. There was also a story in the New York Post.
Lets hope the hawks can rebuild the nest in time to make a good go of it this year.
Update: 4/11/13. I was sent a photograph today that showed the female sitting on the ledge with one egg having rolled away from her. Without a proper nest bowl, she may have had to choose to incubate only one egg.
Washington Square
Rosie and Bobby in Washington Square are close to their hatch date, so I decided to make a trip and see how things are doing. It was quiet at first. Then Bobby appeared on top of 2 Fifth. A nest exchange took place and Rosie did some high flying. She settled down on the west side of the park, before dropping down to some low tree branches to look for rodents.
Eventually, see went to the north side of the park where it looks like she caught a pigeon. (It was out of view, so there is a possibility she just picked up a pigeon Bobby cached for her.) She eat a good deal of it, then flew of towards the nest. Even before she got back to the eggs, Bobby had left the nest to eat the leftovers!
Fifth Avenue Nest
Boring can be at good thing when it comes to a hawk nest. It means all things are working as they should. Sunday night, Pale Male stood guard as Ocatavia kept her eggs warm.
