When I looked at the new nest a few days ago, I didn’t see the brooding female, just the male making a quick visit. But reviewing my footage, she was there. Today, I looked for more vantage points to see into the nest and was able to get some pictures. This is going to be a very hard nest to watch!
An infrequent visitor to Central Park was found this morning on The Pool, an American Bittern.
Often while watching a hawk nest, nothing happens. Tonight was one of those nights, where all I saw was the female sitting on eggs for over ninety minutes!
Tahj Holiday has been watching the San Remo Red-tailed Hawk pair build a nest in a pine tree, southwest and across the path, from the swing sets in the Pinetum. The nest is about 10 feet from the top of one of the tallest pines.
Today, I saw a hawk briefly visit, sit down in the nest and leave after a few minutes. It was the first time I had seen a hawk in the nest. It will be interesting to see what happens over the next two weeks.
Tonight, I arrived just in time to see but not photograph the male bring a small rodent to the female. She went off to eat it quickly. While she was eating the male went to the nest twice. Then they both returned to the nest, before making a trip to the top of the Ritz-Carton together. The female then returned to the nest. This all took about ten minutes.
A highly cropped photograph taken on Friday of a Snowy Owl along the Hudson River Greenway, was posted on Twitter on Saturday. I wasn’t paying attention, but a friend emailed about it late in the afternoon. I wasn’t sure I was going to go look for it, but I didn’t have wine with dinner just in case. I got a text around 8:45 letting me know the owl was found, and I jumped into a cab.
The owl ate two Brown Rats over the course of about three hours, while perched on a mound of mulch inside a fenced in compound. It ate the first Brown Rat, left with the second, but then returned with the second rat within about twenty minutes. It didn’t finish eating the second Brown Rat until after midnight.
Just like the Snowy Owl in Central Park, this owl has found a safe, protected area to eat.
When the owl was hunting, and after it flew out after the second Brown Rat, gulls left their roost on the Javits Convention Center’s green roof. About fifty gulls scattered.
On Sunday, I went at dusk and waited until 10:00 pm. The owl wasn’t seen but around 200 gulls flew up from the Javits Convention Center roof around 9:00 pm, so the owl might still be in the area.
Visits on Monday and Tuesday showed no signs of the owl, and the Javits gulls roosted peacefully each night.
