I’ve just gotten back from a week long visit to California, which included a trip down Highway 1 from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Along the way was a stop in Big Sur, and a chance to see some of the California Condors there.
For details about the hawk tagged 51, see www.mycondor.org.
The wait is over. The new URL is www.livestream.com/nyu_hawkcam
The southern part of Central Park has been a mystery this year. Sightings of two new hawks, plus Pale Male and Octavia in the southern part of the park have made it difficult to figure out what’s going on.
While I didn’t believe it at first, was there is strong evidence that Octavia may have been spending time with both males, so we may have had only three hawks.
Since Octavia has begun sitting on the nest uptown, observers have only seen a single hawk down at Central Park South. So, the question I’ve been trying to answer is does this hawk have a brooding mate in a nest we haven’t found or was what we assumed to be two pairs in late February and early March actually just three hawks?
I didn’t discover the answer on Wednesday but had fun trying!
While watching Bobby and Rosie this evening, I also got to watch the 2013 web cam get installed for the Washington Square nest. I also received news that there are three eggs in the nest. Good news all around.
Today was a nice day in Central Park. I had the two Red-tailed hawks trying to establish a nest on CPW, (now working on a nest on 322 CPW.) Then a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk on the American Museum of Natural History followed by Sharp-shinned Hawk in the Evodia Field.
My next stop was Fifth Avenue, where Octavia is now brooding. Pale Male was tending to the nest (rearranging twigs as is his habit) and she returned to the nest.
A quick walk down to Central Park South uncovered one Red-tailed hawk there. Seven hawks, not too bad for a brief afternoon visit to the park.
Rosie and Bobby are nesting again. Rosie is sitting on the nest and it looks like she’s rolling at least one egg.
The New York Times has withdrawn from sponsoring the web camera, so hawk watchers may need to come to the park in person if they want a live view of the hawks this year.
Update: 3/13/13, News comes from one of the chat moderators that NYU will be hosting a camera on their own this year. The camera will be installed in a few weeks.
