Pale Male Updates

The 2006 Hawkwatching season started out with a January 1st Happy New Year from the Trump Parc  Redtails as Charlotte sat on her favorite nest viewing spot, The Hampshire House chimney, most of the afternoon, with Pale Male Jr. making a flight past last year's nest.  Raising hopes that it will be this year's nest as well.




 

As for the famous Fifth Avenue Red-tails, beyond their usual activities for the first week of January, hunting, preening, placing a new twig on the nest at 927 every now and again, Pale Male and Lola are keeping a close eye on an interloper.  And she is anything but welcome. 
 

The Great Horned Owl discovered during the Christmas Count is still residing in the Ramble of Central Park.  And on January 2nd, Lola, in the company of a murder of crows did their best to get the Horned Owl to move on.  With Lola on a nearby branch posturing with menacing screams and the crows mobbing the owl, they did manage to oust her from her usual daytime roost for a bit. But within hours she was back. 
 

And since, just as dusk darkens into night either Pale Male or Lola can sometimes be seen circling above the east side of the Oven, taking a last look at the Great Horned Owl before tucking into their own roosts for the night.  The owl waits and then she flies out for her own hunt while the hawks slumber.  

   Donegal Browne

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