Sunday Birding
I started birding on Sunday afternoon at the north end of the park and worked my way down to the Ramble.
I started birding on Sunday afternoon at the north end of the park and worked my way down to the Ramble.
On a very cold winter afternoon, I found this immature Red-tailed Hawk hunting in the Ramble at the area along the lake called the Oven. The hawk waited patiently for at least 30 minutes before swooping down to catch a rodent. It then flew with the prey to the Point for a few minutes before returning to a tree in the Oven to consume its catch, which took another 30 minutes. (The pictures in this post are fairly graphic. If you’re squeamish, feel free to skip this post.)
Pale Male and Lola perched on opposite towers of the Beresford Sunday afternoon around 1:30 pm. Pale Male was on the SE tower and Lola on the NE tower.
The Great Horned Owl that arrived on December 18th appears to have left the park on Friday evening, January 27th. It was great fun while it lasted!
Pre-flight position, 1-20-06
Sunday, I found two immature hawks, a Cooper’s Hawk and a Red-tailed Hawk on Pilgrim Hill. The smaller Cooper’s Hawk was chasing the Red-tailed Hawk! They made their way southeast to the lawn above the Zoo around 70th Street. The Red-tailed Hawk hid in a low tree, and the Cooper’s Hawk gave up and flew off. The Red-tailed Hawk soon relaxed and walked around the lawn for a few minutes before flying off, after two young boys yelled, “Pale Male, Pale Male, I found him first, no, I did, I did.”