Hawk Visits in February 2019
Posted Feb. 5, 2019 (Updated Mar. 12, 2019)
Feb. 1
At 9:25 AM, there was a nest visit by one of the hawks and it was working on the nest. At 9:28 AM, both hawks were on the nest. At 9:31 AM, the male hawk left first and the female hawk left after.
Feb. 2
At 9:24 AM, both hawks were on the nest. They both left at 9:27 AM.
Feb. 3
At 7:22 AM, the male hawk was spotted sitting on the nest. At 7:44 AM, the female hawk arrives. At 7:47 AM, the male hawk leaves. At 7:49 AM, the female hawk leaves. At 9:30 AM, the male hawk arrives on the nest again. He rearranged several of the twigs on the nest and was standing for most of the time. At 10:38 AM, he flew off. A minute later, he came back to rearrange some sticks on the nest and to stand around again. He left at 10:42 AM.
Feb. 4
Sometime in the morning, there was a visit by both of the hawks where they were working on the nest. At 9:11 AM, the female hawk left.
Feb. 5
At 7:28 AM, the male hawk was spotted on the nest moving around some twigs, although the visit had started sometime before then. At 11:06 AM, both hawks were spotted on the nest. At 11:07 AM, the male hawk left. At 11:09 AM, the female hawk left.
Feb. 6
At 4:40 PM, the male hawk was seen on the nest. He left at 4:43 PM.
Feb. 7
There were several visits in the morning. At 11:23 AM, the male hawk had reportedly made its third visit of the day. He left at 11:24 AM.
Feb. 8
At 8:32 AM, both of the hawks were on the nest arranging twigs. The male hawk left at 8:34 AM, while the female hawk left at 8:39 AM. At 9:46 AM, the male hawk returned to work on the nest and rearrange some sticks and twigs. At 9:57 AM, he started looking out and got off the nest to stand on the ledge at one point. At 10:20 AM, he got back to working on the nest. He left at 10:37 AM.
Feb. 9
At 6:51 AM, the male hawk may have been in the nest rearranging twigs. At 3:39 PM, he was on the nest again and only stayed for about a minute.
Feb. 10
At 9:18 AM, there was a hawk in the nest, looking around and rearranging nest material. It left at 9:21 AM.
Feb. 11
At 6:45 AM, the female hawk was on the nest. Ay 7:34 AM, she flew off and then came back to work on the nest. The male hawk traded places with the feamle hawk at some point before 9:14 AM. He left at 10:29 AM.
Feb. 12
At 6:40 AM, a hawk was on the nest. It left at 6:43 AM. At 7:13 AM, both hawks were on. At 2:43 PM, the male hawk was on the nest. He left at 2:45 PM.
Feb. 13
At 9:57 AM, the female hawk may have been on the nest and left within a minute. At 1:59 PM, both hawks arrive on the nest. About a minute later, the male hawk leaves first while the female hawk leaves a couple seconds after he does.
Feb. 18
At 6:58 AM, the female hawk was on the nest. She left at 7:26 AM.
Feb. 19
There were several brief visits by the two hawks throughout the day. For the 11:59 AM visit, both of them were on the nest. A couple minutes before 12:04 PM, the female hawk was on the nest.
Feb. 21
Sometime before 9:24 AM, the male hawk made a visit and left. The female hawk was here around that time also.
Feb. 22
The male hawk started his nest visit sometime before 8:51 AM and left at 8:53 AM.
Feb. 25
The male hawk had a short visit sometime before 9:21 AM. At around 10:10 AM, the female hawk was on the nest.
Feb. 27
At 2:37 PM, the female hawk switched places with the male hawk, who had arrived earlier.
Feb. 28
The male hawk made a visit around 8 AM. Both hawks made several visits in the morning. A chips bag that may have been placed on the nest the day before is now gone from the nest. At 12:36 PM, a hawk was on the nest, both standing and rearranging sticks. It left at 12:38 PM. At 12:44 PM, a hawk arrived at the nest to make a quick stick readjustment before leaving a minute later. At 1:42 PM, the female hawk was seen on the nest, looking out at the park. She left a few minutes later.
Thank you to all of the chat members that reported any visits that occurred!
This list may not contain all the visits that happened over the course of the month (some visits may go unreported and some will be missed), but these are the ones that I saw being reported in the NYU Hawk Cam Ustream chatroom and ones that I saw myself.
(All times are reported in the Eastern Time Zone.)