Night hawk

Early evening in Tompkins Square Park by Bobby Williams.

Today's hawk

Tompkins Square Park via Bobby Williams

A cold-tailed hawk in Tompkins Square Park

Bobby Williams spotted the hawk hanging out on top of the Temperance Fountain in the Park this afternoon...

Hey Upper West Side – Eat It!

More rats my ass...

Dining on rat this afternoon in Tompkins Square Park... photos by Bobby Williams...

A red-tailed hawk's rat trap, of sorts

Robert K. Chin shares this photo and anecdote from earlier today with us... in Tompkins Square Park, a red-tailed hawk waited for a rat to show up to the trash pile. (Clever!) One rat did come by ... and the hawk chased it into a sewer drain. The hawk waited for it to emerge, but a dog got away from a woman nearby ... and the dog chased away the hawk...

Another wet-tailed hawk sighting in Tompkins Square Park

Was hoping for a snow-tailed hawk. Photo by Bobby Williams.

Holiday meal for a red-tailed hawk in Tompkins Square Park

EVG reader Lia shares this photo of the red-tailed hawk's Christmas meal today in Tompkins Square Park ... some type of unspecified rodent washed down with a Monster Energy drink... Always a fine pairing...

Holiday Hawk

Photos from Tompkins Square Park today via Bobby Williams.

Pecking order

Rat dining in Tompkins Square Park this afternoon. Photo by Bobby Williams.

A game of cat and mouse, and the squirrel won

Tompkins Square Park today. Photos by Bobby Williams...

Storm hawk

Wonder where red-tailed hawks go to ride out a hurricane...? Photos in Tompkins Square Park today by Bobby Williams.

Red-tailed hawk making it easier for you

Just sitting there on the railing right out in the open ... just waiting to be photographed...

Photos by Bobby Williams.

A dangling rat in Tompkins Square Park

Today in Tompkins Square Park...

Bobby Williams caught the red-tailed hawk with lunch.

A big fat rat.

Which he flew off with to eat somewhere else.

Squirrel, nuts

Two photos of the red-tailed hawk in Tompkins Square Park courtesy of EVG regular peter radley....

...and another angle via Bobby Williams, who notes that the squirrel got away...

Tompkins Square Park rat population thinned by 1

This after our earlier post about people noticing more rats in Tompkins Square Park... Bobby Williams spotted a read-tailed hawk dining on one a little while ago...

Wet-tailed hawk atop St. Brigid's

Between rain showers this afternoon, Bobby Williams saw a red-tailed hawk flying out of Tompkins Square Park... Bobby then spotted the hawk atop the scaffolding at St. Brigid's on Avenue B at East Eighth Street...

Red-tailed hawk returns to Tompkins Square Park, poses

No word yet on dinner plans.

Photos by Bobby Williams.

[Updated] New red-tailed hawk delights crowd in Tompkins Square Park, eats pigeon

This afternoon before the storm, Bobby Williams and peter radley noted the arrival of a new adult red-tailed hawk in Tompkins Square Park...






[Top 3 photos by peter radley]

The hawk dined on pigeon.






[Top 3 shots by Bobby Williams]

And thanks to EVG reader John Iz for some photos as well...

UPDATED:

Thanks to Jacquelyn Gallo for sending us this video of the red-tailed hawk in action yesterday...

Meanwhile, at the Ow! Festival

During the Howl! Festival yesterday in Tompkins Square Park, a red-tailed hawk swooped down and grabbed a Starling ... photos by Bobby Williams.