Scott Dodd: Urban Hawks Take Flight on New York’s Upper West Side
Reason No. 137 that I love commuting by bike in New York City: I get to watch baby hawks go to flight school. Last year, I was fascinated and then heartbroken by a pair of red-tail hawks that built a precarious-looking nest over the West Side Highway, produced a trio of hatchlings, then lost their offspring before they got a chance to take flight, apparently to rat poison. So I was happy — but concerned — this year when the hawks returned to Riverside Park and took up in a new t