Field Notes --Trump Parc - June 20, 2005

Field Notes Mon. 6/20/05
Place: Little Hill, Central Park
Sunset-8:30PM
Temp: 67 degrees
Wind light and variable
Sunny with sparse clouds

All times PM unless otherwise noted.
Arrival: 5:50PM (No one [No adult hawk, D.] on nest)

6:10 - Both Jr. and Charlotte come in from NW, seconds
apart, large circling simultaneously approx. 20 seconds over Trump bldg.
Charlotte lands on chimney top of 150.
6:12 - Jr. continues soaring over Trump and 150 - disappears soaring
West.
6:16 - Charlotte from 150 chimney to nest, standing high and center of
nest. Babies up and active.
6:20 - Charlotte high on center of nest, tail to North, mantling in
full sun
6:25 - Babies heads pop up, Charlotte standing high over them, not
feeding them, looking up.
6:34 - Charlotte looking intently down in nest at eyeasses.
6:36 - Both babies up again - Charlotte gently nudges them in and down
under her. [Covering, possible predator? D.]
6:40 - Charlotte faces West, sitting on babies.
6:42 - Rotates around tail to West/ mantles/babies active with heads
popping up on occasion. Charlotte alert and continues to twist head, looking up and around.
6:50 - Charlotte faces West, still in center of nest. Preens self. Babies
neck up to left.
7:10 - Charlotte appears to be feeding baby from her crop [?,D.] - eyeass neck stretched straight up. She gently guides eyeass to back of nest,
against building.
7:12 - Charlotte mantling - facing Little Hill.
7:14 - Charlotte sitting low at South end of nest, almost disappears
from view.
7:22 - Charlotte up and off nest - flying West (lost behind 110 Building)
8:00 - Nest still unattended (approx. 40 minutes). No sign of Charlotte or Jr. Upon leaving, checked possible perching spots - chimney, Essex sign. Nothing in sight.

Signing off - Charmain Devereaux
(others remaining in attendance - John and Jean)

Jean takes up note taking here and it turns out that
Charmain was the sacrificial birder on this one.

Jean reports:
8:05 Charlotte to nest from behind the Hampshire House but she was not seen coming from W on either CPW or 58th, conceivably had been sitting on far side of HH. Stands on nest. 8:40 Settle into nest, then pops back up, settles back into nest.

Trump Parc Field Notes-Jean and Charmain
Observers-Jean, Charmain, Stella, John.
Submitted-Donna Browne