4/22, Morningside Heights
My visits have been infrequent, but there appears to be no nesting activity at the red-tailed hawk nesting site at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, overlooking Morningside Park, this year. The only hawk sighting I have made there this month was a hawk circling over the cathedral for a minute or so and then flying south, about two weeks ago.
That said, there is a new red-tail nesting site on John Jay Hall on the Columbia University campus. A visit late Friday afternoon seems to have occurred during a feeding, as the female could be seen fussing about the nest for 10-15 minutes. One of the Columbia news sites indicates that as of Friday, two of three eggs had hatched. There was a live nestcam. (Note: Link as of 6/14/2022. Nestcam address has changed several times since it first went live. Search YouTube for "Columbia College Hawk Cam" if link doesn't work.)
The Columbia hawks may formerly have been cathedral hawks. A photo taken of the male at close quarters (the nest is literally just outside a dorm room window) shows dark eyes, suggesting that the hawk is more than just a couple years old. It has been suggested that he is Wyatt, who first appeared in the neighborhood in 2018.
