Sleepy Evening

By D. Bruce YoltonSt. John/Columbia Red-tailed Hawks

I arrived around 6 p.m. to find both parents off the nest and the nest absolutely quiet. No sign of the eyas(ses) while I was there from about 6 p.m. until about 7:30 p.m.

The father stayed in one spot, about twenty feet from the nest the whole time I was there.  The mother shifted spots.  First she was on West 110th, then the southeastern Plant building chimney, then the ornament on the Plant building, which we’ve nicknamed the urn.

The adult male on the Cathedral in a spot about twenty feet from the nest.
The adult female on West 110th.
The adult male from a different angle.
The female on the southeast Plant chimney.
She flies down to at least 116th Street surveying the area and then returns to the “urn” at the southeast corner of the Plant building.  This is only 15 feet from where she had been on the chimney.
The father stays in his one spot.
Here is a pictures that relates his position to that of the nest.
I love the gargoyles on the Cathedral.
The mother in the warm light of the setting sun.