Cats Also Like to Watch the Hawk Cam
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Barbara AmeyHawk Cam | Rescue on the Ledge
By ANDY NEWMAN and EMILY S. RUEBUpdated, 8:15 p.m. | A medical rescue team, which spent Thursday observing Violet, the red-tailed hawk and new mother with an injured leg, decided not to try to take her from her nest high above Washington Square Park in order to treat her.
The wildlife specialists said that Violet was functioning well enough — and that the risks to her and her week-old hatchling were serious enough — that intervention could not be justified. Read more…
Hawk Cam | Rescue of Violet Is Planned for Thursday
By ANDY NEWMANUpdated, 6:33 p.m. | Help is on the way for Violet the red-tailed hawk.
Around midday Thursday, a raptor specialist will try to capture Violet, who — along with her mate, Bobby — is tending a baby in a nest on a 12th-floor ledge at New York University and has a severely swollen leg apparently caused by a wildlife band that is stuck on it.
Erin Callihan, New York UniversityViolet’s with her hatchling on Friday, its birth day. Note her enlarged right leg. Click Image to Enlarge »“My understanding is that there’s a very slim chance that the hawk will be able to be returned to the nest” immediately, Mr. Bopp said. He said that a raptor specialist planned to set a baited trap for Violet not far from the nest, rather than trying to net her on the nest, which he said would be “too inherently dangerous” both for mother and baby.
If Violet’s baby, or eyas, were to be captured, said John Blakeman, a hawk expert, it could probably never be released in the wild. Read more…
Hawk Cam | Expect No Baby Hawk Siblings (Probably)
By EMILY S. RUEB
Tuesday, May 10, 4:29 P.M.On May 3, we pronounced all three eggs unviable, only to be forced to retract our prediction three days later.
The first shell broke open on Friday, to much surprise. Some of our readers declared it a miracle, but it’s more likely that we started the clock too soon on the incubation period, which typically runs 28 to 35 days. There can be a delay of a few days between the time the eggs are laid and the time a mother begins heating them up in earnest.
But now that we have witnessed one hatching, the facts are less obscure. Read more…
Hawk Cam | Assessing Violet’s Situation |
University officials and Robert and Cathy Horvath, the Long Island-based hawk rehabilitators whom City Room has been consulting, are meeting at N.Y.U. on Saturday afternoon to assess Violet’s medical situation. A blue plastic line of some sort is wrapped around one leg, and her foot has become severely swollen. She still flew out of the nest on Saturday morning, returning to Eyas No. 1, her baby hawk born on Friday and to be named by City Room readers.Hawk Cam | Send Us Name Suggestions for the Baby Hawk(s)
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Emily S. Rueb/The New York Times Help give me a name!Bobby and Violet, the proud parents, were named by a professor at N.Y.U. after the library – Bobst – where they built their nest, and the university’s color. This time around, it’s your turn to take part in the naming process.
In the comments box below, please submit your suggestions – one name per comment please. If you like one of the names that has already been suggested, use the “Recommend” button to move the name up the list.
Next week, once we know how many babies there will be, we’ll publish the top ten most popular choices and open it up to a vote.
Hawk Cam | Updates From the Nest
By ANDY NEWMAN and EMILY S. RUEBUpdate, May 12 | A medical rescue team, after spending a day observing Violet on the nest, decided not to try to capture and treat her because she is functioning well enough and the risks of intervention are too high. Read the full story. Read more…
Egg Is Hatching, Hawk Expert Confirms
By ANDY NEWMAN and EMILY S. RUEBLast evening we captured a (blurry) hawk-cam image (also see below) that appeared to show something poking out of the leftmost egg on Violet and Bobby’s nest high above Washington Square Park.
This morning we showed it to Robert Horvath, raptor rehabilitator and City Room hawk consultant. He wrote back:
“The egg on the left side definitely shows activity on the right side of the egg. It’s just a start but if that’s last night it should be completely out today.” And a reader, AC Willment, just e-mailed us to say: “She just got up and sat down again. Can’t be sure but it looks like a chick was on the left, in the location of the egg that seemed to have a beak poking out.”
Subsequent screen grabs sent to us this afternoon by readers show all three eggs appearing intact — at least on the side that faces the camera. But Violet and Bobby turn the eggs periodically, so it is not clear what is on the flipside.
In any case, Mr. Horvath said, emerging from a hawk egg is not like popping out of a birthday cake. Read more…
This morning we showed it to Robert Horvath, raptor rehabilitator and City Room hawk consultant. He wrote back:
“The egg on the left side definitely shows activity on the right side of the egg. It’s just a start but if that’s last night it should be completely out today.” And a reader, AC Willment, just e-mailed us to say: “She just got up and sat down again. Can’t be sure but it looks like a chick was on the left, in the location of the egg that seemed to have a beak poking out.”
Subsequent screen grabs sent to us this afternoon by readers show all three eggs appearing intact — at least on the side that faces the camera. But Violet and Bobby turn the eggs periodically, so it is not clear what is on the flipside.
In any case, Mr. Horvath said, emerging from a hawk egg is not like popping out of a birthday cake. Read more…
Hawks Hatching?
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Is that something poking out of the leftmost egg?Something seems to be up at the hawk nest. Violet has been restless all day, preening and moving much more than usual.
In any case, based on our initial calculations, Violet and Bobby’s kids are due any second. The eggs were first spotted around March 23, which is 33 days ago, and hawk eggs typically incubate for 28 to 35 days. Could the blessed event be underway?
Hawk Cam: Live From the Nest | A Newspaper Blanket for Violet
By EMILY S. RUEB
Christopher James/N.Y.U. On Friday, Bobby brought home a newspaper page for the nest.This morning, Bobby swooped onto the red sandstone ledge on the 12th floor of Bobst Library, a piece of crumpled newspaper clutched in his beak.
The ominous headline that warned New York was overdue for an earthquake? The birds did not appear to be alarmed at the news.
As Marie Winn noted in her response to a reader’s question about his whereabouts, Bobby is hustling. Out in the cold, he’s scouting the area for predators and fetching sustenance for his partner as she dutifully incubates the eggs underneath her. He is not out cavorting with other red-tailed hawks.
Bruce Yolton, who writes the Urban Hawks blog, has also been keeping tabs on Bobby as he perches on buildings, flagpoles and ledges above Washington Square Park. Mr. Yolton has also taken terrific exterior shots which will help those of you wondering where, exactly, they have made their home. Read more…
Answers About Red-Tailed Hawks, Part III
By THE NEW YORK TIMESTaking Questions
Ask About Red-Tailed Hawks
Marie Winn, the author of “Red-Tails in Love: Pale Male’s Story,” responds to readers’ questions. We are no longer accepting questions for this feature.
— Posted by JS Read more…
Answers About Red-Tailed Hawks, Part II
By THE NEW YORK TIMESTaking Questions
Ask About Red-Tailed Hawks
Marie Winn, the author of “Red-Tails in Love: Pale Male’s Story,” responds to readers’ questions. Following is the second set of responses from Marie Winn, the author of “Red-Tails in Love: Pale Male’s Story — A True Wildlife Drama in Central Park,” who is responding to readers’ questions about red-tailed hawks in the city as we anticipate the arrival of the chicks of Violet and Bobby, who are perched above the New York University campus.
— Posted by Emily S. Rueb, City Room
Answers About Red-Tailed Hawks, Part I
By THE NEW YORK TIMESTaking Questions
Ask About Red-Tailed Hawks
Marie Winn, the author of “Red-Tails in Love: Pale Male’s Story,” responds to readers’ questions. Following is the first set of responses from Marie Winn, the author of “Red-Tails in Love: Pale Male’s Story — A True Wildlife Drama in Central Park,” to readers’ questions about red-tailed hawks in the city. Any day now, the reality Web stars Violet and Bobby, hawks perched above the N.Y.U campus, could be welcoming chicks.
— Posted by CCF
Capturing a wily pigeon is far more challenging for red-tails than snagging a mouse or rat or squirrel, yet over the years our local city red-tails have become skillful pigeon hunters. I’m not sure how they acquired that skill. Maybe they took classes at N.Y.U. Read more…
Ask About Red-Tailed Hawks in New York
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Readers who would like to ask Ms. Winn a question can do so in the comments box below. Her first set of answers will be published on Wednesday.
She is the author of numerous books for adults and children, most recently “Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife,” published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2008 and Picador Books in 2009. Notable among her other books is “The Plug-In Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life,” published in 1977 and revised in 2002. Read more…
High-Rise Hawk in a Tangle
By ANDY NEWMAN
Violet and her potentially dangerous necklace, 2:30 p.m. Thursday. For more than an hour, Violet, the red-tailed hawk who is sitting on three eggs on the 12th-floor ledge outside the office of the president of New York University, had a piece of plastic bag looped around her neck.
What’s more, as a commenter, Julia, said in a concerned missive at 2:12 p.m., Violet’s eggs are resting on the portion of the bag that is underneath her. Despite the images that this entanglement conjured — of Violet flying away with the plastic and knocking the eggs out of the nest, of Violet being strangled by the plastic — City Room’s consulting hawk expert, Robert Horvath, told us not to panic. Read more…
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