Many of the former webcam watchers of the Washington Square nest meet up on Sunday mornings to watch Pip.  Today, they got lucky and found her perched on top of an antenna next to the water tank for 2 Washington Square Village. 

Ironically, this building is one of my pet peeves about New York University.  The four buildings regularly put out their garbage in plastic trash bags, rather than dumpsters and their gardens are full of rodents and cockroaches.  Rather than improve this situation by improving sanitation practices, N.Y.U. puts out poisons that put hawks at risk.

The N.Y.U. hawk webcam was sponsored by the university’s sustainability department.  Unfortunately, it looks like this group isn’t interested in studying the impacts of the university’s own practices on hawks in the area.  I guess basic sanitation, reducing poison usage, and evaluating the types of poisons being used, isn’t as trendy as reducing bottled water usage.