Urban Hawks

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.)