[mou] Cool "Pale Male" tale

[Chris Fagyal]

The excerpt below was just posted on "Tweeters", the Washington birding
list server.

I'm not sure how many of you watched "Pale Male" on PBS several months
back, but it's a documentary on a pale Red-tailed Hawk that took up
residency in NYC Central Park about a decade ago and has been nesting
there (now with I believe 4 different females over the years..sadly his
first mate of which the documentary was about...their first successful
nesting, died a year or two later) ever since.  I thought this occurence
regarding Pale Male was just too amazing to not pass it along to the
list, even though it isn't specifically about a bird in Minnesota.

"I am sitting in my office that looks out over Central
Park and Pale Male, the Central Park Red-tailed Hawk,
landed on my window sill for a visit. My computer is
located next to my window, which is open, so I
couldn't help it, I reeeeeached out slowly and touched
his tail! He turned around and bobbed his head at me a
couple times, then turned his back on me after
deciding I am too big to eat. Then suddenly, he was
gone."

How amazing to have a hawk land less than a foot or two away from
you...



Chris Fagyal
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