Could This Be Violet of Washington Square Park? Plus Doorstep Dove and Friend

Photograph by Francois Portmann
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In the past three days, pro-photographer and birder Francois Portmann has run across this Red-tailed Hawk, we're calling Maybe-Violet, twice in areas outside Washington Square Park.

Could she be Violet?

Here is what Francois had to say about his most recent sighting of December 23rd--

Hi Donna,
More on Maybe-Violet from Washington Square Park,
Today we crossed paths again.
Same scenario when she has to turn or adjust herself on perches, she tries to use the right foot but needs the help of her wings.
Note the band on first 3 shots.
(Violet's right appendage is banded. D. B.)

Greets
Francois

Photograph by Francois Portmann
http://www.fotoportmann.com/birds

Photograph by Francois Portmann
http://www.fotoportmann.com/birds
Note the band on the right leg which is behind her.

Photograph by Francois Portmann
http://www.fotoportmann.com/birds

Photograph by Francois Portmann
http://www.fotoportmann.com/birds
12-23-2011

Photograph by Francois Portmann
http://www.fotoportmann.com/birds
12-20-2011
From Francois' note about his earlier sighting on December 20th.

Hi Donna,
I believe this is Violet from Washington Square Park,
She was mostly hunting perched from buildings, always on her left leg.

Photograph by Francois Portmann
http://www.fotoportmann.com/birds
12-20-2011

As John Blakeman has watched a good bit of Violet on the NYTimes Hawkcam, I sent him Francois' shots of the 20th for his opinion on whether this Maybe-Violet might be actual Violet of Washington Square Park. Here's his response, even before the news that the hawk's right leg is banded, as is Violet's, which became apparent in Francois' photographs of the 23rd.

Mr Blakeman wrote-

The chances of two dead-leg RTs in Manhattan (or all of NYC) is vanishingly small. I don't know anything about the location, but if a one-legged RT was seen there, it just had to have been V -- regardless.

The promised update on Doorstep Dove and Friend--
I assume as there has been Accipiter haunting going on in the backyard, with coming dusk Doorstep Dove, right, and Friend, left, don't automatically catch the last of the sun warming their toes on the edge of the electrically warmed birdbath.

Sometimes like yesterday, they hunker down under the feeder, making them less easy to pick off, plus there is always the availability of a late snack while watching the sunset.

Donegal Browne