Today, I arrived in the park to see both parents soaring above the park and perching together on the west side of the park. I looked for the fledglings on that side of the park, but couldn't find them so I returned to the east side of the building.
After about twenty minutes, Rosie (the adult female) appeared and brought a bird to one of the fledglings. We watched Rosie help the fledgling eat, which was unexpected at this date.
After the meal, the other fledgling appeared on the same, high south side Silver railing. They stayed together like bookend at opposite sides of the railing.
The fledglings were really having fun on the buildings to the east side of Washington Square Park this evening. Both were exploring the buildings and doing very well at flying and landing. The buildings and locations are the same ones Pip used last year, bringing back fond memories.
On the second full day after fledging, both eyasses were found in various places around the park, as well as their parents.
When I arrived, one eyass was on a building to the east of the Bobst Library, where the nest is. It was on the roof for over an hour. It ended up flying far south. At the end of the day, this eyass' location was uncertain. It may have been on top of one of the Washington Square Village buildings, based on the parents behavior.
While we were searching for this fledgling, a parent and a Peregrine Falcon chased after each other. I hadn't seen a Peregrine for awhile and thought they had left the neighborhood, but I guess they were just keeping a low profile.
Bobby and Rosie were both seen hunting in the evening. Both caught rodents. Bobby ate his second catch on a building south of the Silver building on the east side of the park.
Late in the evening one fledgling was found on a Silver balcony. It begged a little for food. Rosie came over with a rodent, and then flew of with it to a building to the south of Silver with the food. Parents use food to move stuborn fledglings from location to location, and I suspect Rosie wanted the fledgling off of Silver.
The fledglings' first day in the park seem to have been a great day for them. Folks found both fledglings, and both parents were easy to find during the day.
I arrived in the evening to find two adults and a fledgling. That fledgling took off from the Silver building, first for a tree and then ended up trying to land up on 2 Fifth Avenue. It miscalculated its landing on 2 Fifth and ended up in a fenced in garden that is now a construction site.
Bobby took some left over food from Silver and eat it on the building directly to the south. The other eyass who had been on that building (where Pip hung out after fledging), ended up on a window on Silver. Rosie was on a flag pole for much of this time so we had three hawks, two adults and the other fledgling, in view.
