The Washington Square hawks took their time arriving in the square this evening, waiting until just before sunset to appear. There was a visit to the nest with a rearrangement of a brown paper bag. Then Bobby roosted in a familiar place.
I haven’t been up to Riverside Park since last summer, so I decided to make a visit. The female has a new mate to replace the one poisoned last year. He’s banded and when possible, I’ll try and read the numbers.
The female was rebuilding the nest when I arrived. She brought at least three branches to the nest before going off to join her mate on the Normandy building.
This afternoon in Washington Square was fun. Both hawks were very easy to find and for the first time, I got to see the nearby Peregrine Falcon in detail. The Peregrine Falcon is a juvenile and may be roosting on 100 Bleecker Street, an I. M. Pei designed, International Style building used for NYU faculty housing.
Bobby roosted on MacDougal street building this evening. It’s a noisy perch, but does have a view of 100 Bleecker!
More photographs from Florida: Red-Sholdered Hawk, Bald Eagle, Northern Harrier and Florida Scrub-Jay.
At the birding festival, I got a chance to go down to the Viera Wetlands. While there this River Otter took a dust bath.
I attended the 2012 Florida Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festive in Titusville this weekend. It was an extremely well run event and I had a great time. On Saturday morning, I got up at 4:30 a.m. to see a group of three Red-cockaded Woodpeckers.
Due to habitat loss, the population of this bird is about 1% of its original size. The population of this bird is limited to about 6,000 breeding groups, or about 14,000 birds in the Southeast United States.
