Marathon Sunday 2007

By D. Bruce Yolton927 5th Avenue Red-tailed Hawks

Sunday was a festive day in Central Park with the Marathon going through it for most of the day.

(Warning: some squirrel eating shots near the end of this post.)

When the male front runners of the race went by, the helicopters ended up flushing the three hawks currently in area of the Great Lawn, Pale Male, Lola and a juvenile hawk.  Reports are that the adults are not too tolerant of the young hawk. 

This seems to change each year.  Sometimes Lola seems to tolerate a young hawk and sometimes she doesn’t.  Last year, she ignored the young hawk that hung out in the park around the Natural History Museum.

I left the park for brunch and returned to just miss Pale Male in his Turtle Pond tree.  He reappeared soon thereafter on the flag pole of Belvedere Castle.
He then flew to south into the Ramble to a tree near the Tupelo tree.
He stayed on a tree for about 20 minutes.
Then jumped on the ground and walked over to…
…a dead squirrel.
He picked at it but didn’t seem to be too interested in eating it.
After a bit, he returned to the tree he had been in earlier.
Then flew east, stopping in a tree and then north.