Injured or Stunned Hawk at Thomson Reuters Complex Last Evening

[patsy6]

Remember last evening (3/31) when DC was hollering at something, and we thought perhaps it was a gull?  Well, mystery solved.  This morning at work one of my co-workers shared these photos with me of a possibly injured and stunned juvenile hawk (Cooper's or red-tailed?) near the rear entrance to the Thomson Reuters complex.  It was definitely within sight of the nestbox and the rest of the Times Square Building.  She thought perhaps it had hit the building, but I wonder if perhaps it tangled with one of our falcons.  She wondered whom she should call, other than Animal Control, but it flew away. Hopefully it has recovered and it will stay away.

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[Carol P.]

Thanks for posting these pictures Pat.  This morning I spoke to one of the ladies that saw what I believe is a Coopers Hawk yesterday.  There's a really good chance that it tangled with one of our falcons.  The Coop was seen flying away, so hopefully it high-tailed out of the area, with a lesson learned.  DO NOT enter the territory of a pair of nesting Peregrine Falcons!   

[Donna]

Heard about that this morning. I said it was probably a hawk not a falcon that was down! Looks OK, probably scared to even fly with 2 falcons watching!! Thanks Pat!

[MAK]

Remember last evening (3/31) when DC was hollering at something, and we thought perhaps it was a gull?  Well, mystery solved.  This morning at work one of my co-workers shared these photos with me of a possibly injured and stunned juvenile hawk (Cooper's or red-tailed?) near the rear entrance to the Thomson Reuters complex.  It was definitely within sight of the nestbox and the rest of the Times Square Building.  She thought perhaps it had hit the building, but I wonder if perhaps it tangled with one of our falcons.  She wondered whom she should call, other than Animal Control, but it flew away. Hopefully it has recovered and it will stay away.

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Phew, glad it wasn't a falcon and that it flew away indicating that it was probably ok!  

[NCAFalcons]

Well, that would make sense. He was really upset for an extended period of time.  I thought it was interesting  that Beauty stayed at the box the entire time while he dealt with threat!

I'm really happy that the hawk was well enough to fly away.  Poor thing.

Thanks Patsy!