>From Brooklyn Bridge Park, I can see -- with my bins and telephoto, anyway -- >into the Peregrine scrape location across the East River at 55 Water St. On >2/11 I spotted a Peregrine perched there. Yesterday, I saw a Peregrine there >as well. And today, again. Both yesterday and today, the bird was tucked into >the little bit of late morning shade in the left hand corner for at least 45 >minutes. Today I saw the bird move into the sun right in front of the scrape >itself before taking off.
Today around 10:30 I also saw a large Cooper's Hawk fly to a high tree on Clinton St. just north of Pacific St., then make a swoop on a passerine on the other side of the street. The bird, which looked like a young (subadult) female, missed, perched briefly at eye-level in an evergreen, and then flew off north. About an hour and a half later, the pigeons above the BQE/Atlantic Avenue bridge -- five blocks from the first location -- were in turmoil as a Cooper's swooped though them. I believe this was the same bird. She riled up two other flocks before I lost track of her towards Henry St. (which is where I live, a block from a fancy pigeon coop raptor-magnet). Matthew http://matthewwills.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
