4/29, Highbridge at Three Weeks

Torrential rain like we had last Sunday evening always makes me worry about exposed hawk nests. Late afternoon this Sunday I checked on the red-tail nest at the north end of Highbridge Park and was happy to see Martha and the two babies safe and sound.

I may have missed a feeding by 10 or 20 minutes. The two nestlings were both awake and wiggling about a bit. A couple times, one or the other of them stood up along the side of the nest, looking impressively big.

But after I'd watched for a little while, everyone was settling down.

And then perhaps 20 minutes after I started watching, both nestlings were obviously snoozing while Martha quietly preened her breast feathers.

4/28, Being Norman

Between work demands and bad timing, I didn't see any interesting activity at the Cathedral nest this past week. But I did see Norman a couple times.

Monday as I was walking along Broadway in the middle of the afternoon, I happened to look down the cross street and spotted him a block away atop a water tower at Amsterdam and 107th St.

And on Wednesday after I had checked on the nest, he put in a short appearance on his favorite spot on the hospital roof.

4/18, Feeding Time

It looks like a definite hatch at the red-tailed hawk nest at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. On Tuesday we saw the "concerned staring at the bottom of the nest" which often suggests a hatch in progress, and today it seems confirmed by Isolde spending 12-13 minutes leaning into the nest in fairly obvious feeding behavior.

Norman apparently delivered food at about 6:40, as Isolde promptly got up and started feeding the baby(s). Norman took off a minute or two later, leaving Isolde about her work. The feeding concluded just before 6:55, when Isolde leapt out of the nest. She carried the remains of dinner up to a preferred spot on the roof of 54 Morningside Drive where she had a bite or two herself. She flew back to the nest a few minutes later, making a momentary stopover on the the roof of the hospital.