These pictures of Pale Male and Lola taken on Monday really are new!  They sure look a lot like the previous days, which makes sense since it’s the same locations for both of them.

The rain kept me from the park until about 4 p.m. on Sunday.  When I arrived Pale Male and Lola were on an antenna atop a building at 79th and Fifth Avenue.  I had to rush home to accept a grocery delivery, but when I returned to the park around 5:30, Pale Male was east of the Met in a tree he’s been using over the last few days which overlooks a few apple trees.  While photographing Pale Male, Lola few from the east side to the west side, where she ended up roosting on the SE tower of the Beresford for the evening.

Pale Male spent the afternoon behind the Met again on Saturday.  Red-tails like to perch on one leg and stretch the other.  Pale Male did this all afternoon.

I could only stay in the park for about an hour on Friday evening, but was able to find Pale Male. He’s moved a little further north than usual.  There are a set of apple trees that are dropping fruit, which are attracting mice, which may be luring Pale Male to move 200 feet north.

When I arrived in the early evening Pale Male was in a tree a little further north than usual.  He stayed in the tree before being mobbed by a few Blue Jays.  He then went east across the drive and landed in a low tree branch, before returning back to the tree he had spent most of the early evening in.  As night fell, he moved to one of his favorite roosting spots a few blocks north.

Lola roosted overnight on the Beresford Wednesday evening.  This was the first time I had seen her stay overnight on the West Side.  (Normally, I wouldn’t discuss a bird’s roosting location, but Lola’s use of the Beresford as a daytime perch has been widely publicized in the New York City tabloids and the high height of her perch would make it difficult for anyone to bother her.)