Except for Violet chasing off an American Kestrel and some very brief moments of Pip’s flapping and jumping, it was a dull afternoon and evening in Washington Square. The fledge window has opened, although I’m guessing June 21st as the fledge date.
Tonight a few lucky hawk watchers got to see the third and last eyass on the nest, fledge from the St. John the Divine nest. I even recorded it! (On the video, it’s at about 4 minutes.) The fledge happened late in the evening, around 7:30 p.m.
This is the second early evening fledge in recent years at St. John.
Everyone was expecting the Riverside Church Peregrine Falcons to have fledged by now, but they were still all there when I visited on Thursday. I was very surprised to see five youngsters still at the scrape!
(It received an email late tonight that one of the falcons fledged after I left. So, two species of Raptors had fledges on the same day just block apart.)
With the Riverside Church Peregrine Falcon parents have fledglings, expect a few territorial disputes between the St. John the Divine Red-tailed Hawk parents.
I couldn’t figure what video I should edit out tonight, so here’s a short film of this evening at Fifth Avenue.
A brief visit to Washington Square yielded some great photos of the eyass and its parents tonight.
St. John the Divine has two fledglings. One most likely went off the nest late Sunday and one on Monday morning. When I was there one was on the southern side of the Cathedral and the other on a fence just north of One Morningside Drive near the guard station. Both looked great, although the one on the Cathedral looked a lot more confident than its sibling. The fledglings are in very safe locations away on the Cathedral campus, which is a quiet enclave.
