Pale Male was on a baseball backstop on the Great Lawn when I arrived in the park around 6:00 p.m.  He stayed there for quite awhile before attempting to hunt twice unsuccessfully.  He then moved to a tree north of the Met to roost for the evening.

Update: I received an email from a reader worried about Pale Male’s unsuccessful hunting attempts.  Red-tailed Hawks miss their prey frequently.  So, Pale Male missing a few times doesn’t mean anything is wrong.  Pale Male is doing just fine.

Pale Male was on the Met when I arrived at the park.  Reports were that he then flew into a nearby tree, made a half-hearted attempt to hunt and then went off to bed.

Lola flew to the Beresford at nightfall.

Pale Male was on one of his favorite perches on Monday evening, a tree on the north lawn of Turtle Pond.  Soon after I arrived, he caught a rodent near where he caught one on Sunday, at the edge of the pond.

On Sunday, after birding up north, I took the bus south twenty blocks and re-entered the park at 84th Street and Fifth Avenue.  As soon as I arrived I saw Pale Male circle over the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and then make a number of hawk cries.  He was soon joined by Lola and both of them circled high above 5th Avenue in the 90’s. Although I couldn’t photograph the intruder because of the distance, there was a third hawk which Lola and Pale Male chased away.

On Saturday afternoon, Pale Male and Lola spent a few minutes together on the Beresford.

Pale Male was tough to find on Thursday.  I finally found him in a tree east of the basketball courts, northeast of the Great Lawn.

Over the past few weeks, both Pale Male and Lola have been spending time further north than usual.  I wonder if they are establishing a territory boundary line between themselves and the hawk(s?) up at Mt. Sinai?