What's Wrong With the Washington Square Park Hawk's Eye? Plus the Mandarin Fish Says Hello

Photo by Francois Portmann- 

A while back Francois Portmann noted that one of the hawks at Washington Square had a problem with one eye.  Unfortunately the problem is still evident.  Take a look.  I'm asking the wonderful rehabbing Horvaths to take a look as well to get their opinion.

Photo by Francois Portmann         

ATTENTION WASHINGTON SQUARE HAWKWATCHERS--

Is this Bobby or Rosie?  

(So far the tally of non-WSP hawkwatchers is leaning toward Bobby but you'll know for sure.)            

Photo by Francois Portmann

And for those who don't know, the Washington Square Hawk Cam is up and running.

N.Y. / REGION   | March 12, 2012
City Room: The Hawk Cam Is Back for Another Season
By EMILY S. RUEB
Hawk Cam 2012: The camera is streaming live from the 12th floor of the Bobst Library at New York University.

Photo by Donegal Browne                     This is a mandarin fish.   I'd been told that  Mandarin were very nifty looking and that I should be sure to get a look at him.  I'd about given up when suddenly Mandarin came out from behind the giant clam where he'd been lurking.

 Mandarin is pretty spectacular.

 Photo by Donegal Browne

Then with a wave,  off  he went to be about his fish business. 

Donegal Browne

An Egg For Rosie, and Quicksilver, the African Grey, Does the Electric Can Opener

PHOTO BY DONEGAL BROWNE

For Bobby and Rosie, One Egg in the Nest

By EMILY S. RUEB

There is an egg in the nest.
The red-tailed hawks of Washington Square Park, Bobby and Rosie, are guarding an egg in their aerie on the 12th-floor ledge of Bobst Library, outside of the New York University president’s office.

Hawk Cam

Chronicling the red-tailed hawks of Washington Square Park.

The president, John Sexton, saw the egg when both birds were out of the nest on Tuesday, said John Beckman, a university spokesman.
“It is a joy that we have now added the rhythms of nature to the rhythms of an academic community,” Dr. Sexton said in statement. Just as we did last year, City Room plans to broadcast the unfolding drama of life on the ledge via our Hawk Cam.
It remains to be seen how many eggs will be in the clutch: red-tails lay as many as five.
Once incubation begins — when Rosie hunkers down over the eggs and begins warming them in earnest — the gestation period is typically 28 to 35 days, though if we use last year’s 42-day incubation period as a forecasting model, the atypical can be typical.
Since the pair were first seen together in late December, they have...

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Thanks to Pondove for the heads up!

Photo  Donegal Browne

I was in the bedroom when suddenly I heard the whirring of a motor emanating from the other side of the house.  What in the world?  Was the parrot on his perch?  You've got to be kidding. Because the parrot is standing on the lever of the can opener while it errrrrrs, his weight just enough to get it going. 

 Silver is not in the least perturbed.       

Photo Donegal Browne

The results of a March snowstorm.  I very much like how the "nest" looks covered in snow.  Almost immediately the temperature soared up to the 50's, the grass has begun to green under the bird feeders, and for the last few nights every now and again, a bird sings a snatch of his species song.

Speaking of sound, just in from Robin of Illinois- and Eagle Cam with SOUND!
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Donegal Browne