More Tiny Glimpses At St. John
Tonight the feeding didn’t take place until 8:15! Just as it was getting dark. The mother looked to be feeding two positions, which is a good sign for a healthy nest.
First Glimpse At St. John
It was great to finally see very brief glimpse of an eyass at St. John. This weekend, the city should be a fun place to hawk watch. So many nests, so little time.
Riverside Eyasses Look Great
The Riverside Park eyasses look great and the two of them are large enough for hawk watcher to get good looks at them often.
Riverside Park – So Far, So Good
Tonight, I was thrilled to watch the mother accept food that had been placed out for her around the nest. Her accepting this food makes easier for her to be a single mom.
Inwood Hill Park
Inwood Hill Park, at the upper tip of Manhattan has a great nest which is high up a Tulip Tree just south of the soccer fields. It must be the most hidden of all the known nests in the city. Three hours of watching yielded two small glimpses of an eyass. There are probably more than one little one on the nest, but I’ll have to wait until they’re bigger to count them.
Trust Me They’re In There
Both Robert and James have had reports on their blogs about signs of the St. John the Divine nest hatching, earlier this week. Once I hear a report like this of a nest hatching, I have to travel to see what’s up.
The nest is behind the shoulder’s of St. Andrew and is very deep. Every year it seems to get deeper, too. This makes it hard to see the young eyasses. We can see the feeding, and we can see the slices (poops), but we can’t see the young birds. On Saturday, I positively knew they had hatched but couldn’t see them. Once they get bigger, we’ll be able to see them and count how many there are. But not now…
The bare spot on the mother’s chest is her brood patch. You almost never see it, but the wind was “just right”.
