Pale Male Brings Lola Take-Out

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

While birding at the Oven (a section of the Ramble on the shore of the Lake), I was enjoying the variety of birds which included, Canada Geese, Mallards, a Mourning Dove, a Red-bellied Woodpecker,  two Downy Woodpeckers, Blue Jays, Black-capped Chickadees, Tufted Titmice, a Fox Sparrow, four Northern Cardinals, two male Red-winged Blackbirds, a Rusty Blackbird, a Common Grackle, a House Finch, and lots of House Sparrows. 

Around 4:30 p.m. we spotted Pale Male with a rat circling over the Oven.  He then headed towards 5th Avenue. 

It was very cold. A group of us thought heading to see where Pale Male went with the rat would warm us up.  So, it was off to “The Bench” by the model boat pond. 

When we arrived we found both Lola (lower left) and Pale Male (upper right) on a 5th Avenue building around 77th Street.
Pale Male watching Lola eat.
Lola on the same building eating the “Take-Out”, Pale Male has brought her.
Pale Male makes a brief trip to the nest.
Leaves the nest.
And heads north returning to Lola.
Pale Male back on the 77th Street building.
Lola gives Pale Male the leftovers.
Lola hops up on a railing and soon exits heading due West.