I ventured downtown to see what was up with the Washington Square and Tompkins Square Parks on Friday.

Washington Square Park was calm with one of the hawks on the Spanish Roof of the building on the Southwest corner of the park. Other than that the park was quiet. Reports are that the couple has been seen copulating for the last month. A male hawk was found dead over the last year a block or two south of the nest. This year’s male might not be Juno/Orion.

Tompkins Square Park was much more of what I would have expected. The male had just caught a pigeon when I arrived and called and called for his mate to come share it. However, she wasn’t that interested. After visiting a number of perches, he finally got her to share some of the bird. As I was leaving the park, the couple copulated. All looked good for brooding to start soon.