It's mid-August and time to wrap up this year's Tompkins Square Red-Tailed Hawk nesting season. It's been a different and often emotional year, from losing Christo in February, to meeting Charlie and welcoming three hawklets, to tragically losing one of them and needing to rescue another, to...wishing the third the best on its journey to be a successful hawk.
The three hawk fledglings brought a lot of happiness to a lot of people
this summer, so it's hard to see them go, but this is the natural
progression of things. Parents, Amelia and Charlie, will stay in the neighborhood as it is their resident territory, but their offspring will eventually migrate to parts unknown.
As of this posting, the rescued fledgling is still being cared for at the Wild Bird Fund and, if all goes well, it will be released and embark on fall migration with other young hawks. The fledgling who remains out in the "wild" of the neighborhood has spent a lot more time away from the park and has been difficult for me to find. This is not a bad thing as it means they are independent and free to go wherever they want.
Below are some of my last fledgling photos from this season.
You can see all of my photos from this year in this Flickr album, and all of this season's hawk posts here. My full hawk archive is here, and I'm working on creating a dedicated site to better house these records.
I'll still post any fledgling updates if/when I get them, and we do have Amelia and Charlie to observe, so we are never without hawks. 😊
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