If Lola and Pale Male’s eggs are going to hatch, it will be sometime this week. While this would normally be a feverish time at the nest, after years of failed nests, expectations are low and there are no crowds of hawk watchers at the nest.
Tonight, it was a fairly standard nest exchange. No sign yet of a hatching.
Pale Male cached food for Lola in a tree on Cedar Hill late on Sunday. She was eager to eat it, leaving the nest before Pale Male arrived to take over egg sitting duties! He settled in quickly afterward, so the eggs were in no danger of getting cold.
She came back to the nest after eating, but didn’t settle down right away but flew off, only to return a few minutes later and take over egg sitting duties.
Due to the wonderful network of birders in Central Park, news quickly went out about the arrival of a Yellow-Throated Warbler in Central Park on Sunday. It was a very cooperative bird, letting everyone get great looks at it as it ate insects around the southern and western edges of the Model Boat Pond.
We’ve stuck out for the last few days. No sign of the owls.
With a new young male and the warmer weather, it’s possible that they’re just exploring and staying in various tree tops. But it’s also possible that they’ve nested and we just can’t find them.
I guess we’ll know the answer in a few months. Owlets aren’t quiet. That is one thing I do know.
I visited the Riverside Park nest on Saturday afternoon after the weather had cleared. The female was on the nest and was visited by the male once while I was there. Although, he visited, she stayed on the nest.
Red-tailed hawks are once again nesting on the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, in Queens, New York. This year, they have abandoned the old nest located off the coast of Somalia (fear of pirates?) in the Indian Ocean and built a new nest directly south of Los Angeles, in the Pacific Ocean. The new nest, like the older ones, is on the equator.
The equator of the Unishere is a I-beam, and the female can be completely out of view if she wants to be. I was there at sunset, so the picture quality is poor. I’ll be going back later in the season to see the eyasses.
