I reported five weekends ago that Martha was brooding, so I headed up to the north end of Highbridge Park today to see if there were baby red-tailed hawks to see. The trip took seemingly forever, due to dealing with what seems to be MTA's annual spring shutdown of the 1 train on weekends. But finally I got there and found Martha up and fussing about. A feeding? No, looks like she was just preening. She settled down after a minute.
But, hmmm, she does seem to be sitting a little high.
After 15 minutes she got back up, and... now that's feeding behavior. Yes, a fuzzy baby head.
No, make that two fuzzy baby heads.
And there's a baby hawk face.
The feeding was short, maybe five minutes. The babies wiggled around for a couple more minutes, perhaps tussled a bit. There was enough movement for me to wonder if there were maybe three. But then everyone settled back down.
Highbridge was followed by a quick but late hike up to Inwood Hill Park. The mama hawk there was settled too low in the nest to be seen, suggesting there was no hatch there yet. Another hawkwatcher who had already been there a while seemed of the same opinion.
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