I’m about to go on vacation for two weeks, so this might be my last Flaco post for awhile. It’s been great to watch Flaco do much better than expected and survive for a month in Central Park. I would have preferred that he had captured and sent to a facility with a flight cage, but that now looks unlikely.

Tonight, he hooted for a long time from a conifer, before jumping between a few branches. Out of the blue, a Red-tailed Hawk knocked him off his perch. It happened in about a second. I suspect has we get closer to having the hawks nest, they will become even more agressive.

Flaco then moved to the Harlem Meer Pool/Rink construction site, then to a tree above the drive, and swooped down into the site but appeared to continue flying. We then couldn’t relocate him. He is now comfortable flying long distances, which makes him much harder to track.

After a snowstorm, Flaco was in a tree overlooking the new Rink/Pool construction site, and hooted both in his roost tree and in trees over the east drive. He flew into the construction site, but then I lost track of him. Reports are that he then quickly left and went into a tree, but I couldn’t confirm the report.

It was a relaxed late afternoon with the Eurasian Eagle-Owl. The folks watching him were quiet and the owl was quiet. He kept track of a hawk and turned his body around to get a better look, but other than that there wasn’t much that happened. A bit of preening, but very little stretching before fly out. He made a few stops making a large circle before I lost track of him near the Block House.

Flaco preened and hooted before fly out, flew to a few trees, and then when hunting in the construction area for the new rink/pool.

He’s seems to have settled into the north end of the park. This is the longest he’s stayed in one area since his release by vandals.

Saturday afternoon with Flaco was quiet with the owl sleeping and then waking up to do some hooting and preening. The northern end of Central Park is much quieter than the southern end which is good for the owl. I wasn’t able to stay for the fly out, so I don’t know if he returned to the construction site after dark.

On Friday, Flaco roosted high in a tree above a waterfall in The Loch and went over to the construction site for the new Pool/Rink after fly out. He coughed up a pellet about half an hour before fly out.