The pair on Central Park West continues to copulate and doesn’t seem quite ready to settle down to nesting just yet. Reports are that they are not bothered by the construction crews on the building where they have built there nest so this is great news. On Sunday, I saw them copulate on the south tower of the Eldorado and watched the male fly in the high winds.
Watching the Fifth Avenue nest takes patience but there is that magical moment when a hawk exchanges places with the other that makes waiting worthwhile.
Tonight, I got to see Octavia return to the nest and replace Pale Male.
The Central Park pair on the west side in the 90s looks to have completed their nest. I found them both on Central Park West at 93rd, eating a pigeon and then copulating. Let’s hope they do well and aren’t disturbed by the construction on the nest building.
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!
