Friday, June 22, 2012

Friday's Foto

New York City's resident Red-tailed Hawk pairs are now fledging this year's batch of offspring in all 5 boroughs. This is "Junior" the adult male who calls Green-Wood Cemetery his territory. Since 2006 he and his mate, "Big Mama", have raised 14 offspring. He began his relationship with Big Mama when he was only a year old and hadn't yet developed the specie's namesake red tail.

3 comments:

chris fargo said...

Hello. I really enjoy your blog. It inspired me to go to greenwood last weekend to try to get a glimpse of the hawk. I did not see it although I captured dozens of great images of various other birds. Wondering if you could lend some insight as to wear the hawk may be observed.

thank you. cf

8:29 AM EDT
Rob Jett said...

The red-tailed nest is on the Hill of Graves. While fledged, all the young can still be found in the general vicinity. Check my Google map here - http://goo.gl/maps/I951 the Hill of Graves is labeled just southwest of 20th St entrance.

2:05 PM EDT
chris fargo said...

Thanks so much. Ill be there this weekend looking for him again

2:35 PM EDT

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