Trouble for Tompkins Square Park RTH's in NYC

[Kris G.]

http://urbanhawks.blogs.com/urban_hawks/2015/02/trouble-on-the-lower-east-side.html

Is this legal?

[Donna]

http://urbanhawks.blogs.com/urban_hawks/2015/02/trouble-on-the-lower-east-side.html

Is this legal?

Probably not legal and shameful, if you ask me! Look at Pale Male! That was quite an ordeal also! Let them stay, sheesh!!

[MAK]

Humans always messin' with Mother Nature! 

[Kris G.]

Follow-up story:

Mystery Solved

After hearing two very upset hawks and watching workers try to install a piece of plexiglass (which seems to be a very bad idea), we ran into a member of the Christodora Co-op Board who explained what was happening at the Christodora House.

The building is starting a two year facade renovation which will require surrounding the building with in a protective screen so all the brickwork can be replaces. If you've seen the top of the Christodora, which has mesh on top of almost the entire top floor to prevent brickwork from falling, you know this is an urgent and necessary project.

So, the buildings actions to remove the nest and discourage the hawks from reestablishing a nest are entirely justified. It's better to force the hawks to relocate, then to have them injured during the construction.

But you have to wonder about two things:

1) How naïve the building's board and management company must be, not to have had a press release ready to explain their actions?  The Christodora House nest did get huge coverage in the NYC tabloids.  It was big news.  Didn't the board know about the problems at Pale Male's nest and the recent fines levied against a construction crew on Central Park West?

2) What the heck are they doing with that sheet of plexiglass?  Imagine what would happen if one of the adult hawks flies into the plexiglass and is injured?  Looks like the Christodora House needs some adult supervision.

[MAK]

It's never a good situation when building repairs need to be done where wildlife have nests. We know this all too well from when Kodak gave Mariah and Kaver the boot to repair the Kodak Office Tower. 

[Kris G.]

Well, Christo and Dora have relocated their nest to another building..onto another AC unit! 

Posted on chat that Ave A is a very busy street, there's no place for the kids to flap or fledge off from.

Cam:
Ave A Nest Cam on USTREAM: Fridigaire A/C, East Village, New York City. Birds

View of location:
http://evgrieve.com/2015/03/christo-and-dora-are-building-2-nests.html