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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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12/9/2004: Evicted hawks
![]() Landing at the nest is Lola, and standing by is Pale Male. They are hawks. They watch over three of the 25 chicks they raised over a period of nine years. ![]() They lived on the ledge of a Fifth Avenue building near Central Park. "Lived" is past tense, as yesterday the building's management decided that the nest should be removed as a "safety precaution". They waited until there were no chicks and a kind of inactive pair of birds, and when the birds were away they took the nest down. ![]() And here Pale Male went to such trouble to build it, retrieving sticks from the park... and enriching the lives of everyone who saw the birds. Presently they have a very unhappy pair of hawks, milling about complaining, and wondering whether they should build nearby or just move out of the city like all the other middle-aged parents. Can the burbs provide enough to interest your basic hawk? Maybe Hoboken or the Island would be a compromise. And they also have humans milling about complaining, wondering why the building had to do this. ![]() Pale Male: what a beautiful bird. The hawks' home page - palemale.com full story |
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