All quiet at the Cathedral red-tail nest nest when I passed by Thursday about 6:15. Nestlings must be taking a nap, and no parent is in sight.
Down in Morningside Park, the pond looks quiet, too, with the Canada goose family apparently hiding back in the reeds. But wait, who's that hiding over in the shadiest part of the pond?
A black-crowned night heron. This makes the second one I've seen in the park this year. The first was when I passed by at sunset on May 23, and it was fishing alongside a great egret.
Ten minutes later back up along on Morningside Drive, both baby hawks are up. And now they're big enough that they're taking watch duty on both sides of the nest, one looking out to the south and one to the north.
A minute or two later, both are the north side of the nest, their heads tracking something in the air.
I turn around and there's Mama Isolde on the corner of St. Luke's.
The kids briefly return to watch duty on opposite shoulders of St. Andrew.
One seems to have an eye on something directly below.
Just before 7:00 I'm thinking it's time to leave. I back up 113th St. and take a couple pix of Isolde on the urn.
When suddenly she goes from 0 to 30 in two seconds.
Flying west along 113th St.
She perches momentarily above the hospital clock, then keeps going west over the hospital roof, perhaps hanging a right turn to the north when she gets past the taller floors.
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