Citizen journalist reporting the latest on Lola...Flash with the Fingertips! Our Fifth Avenue fine feathered friend, fourth mate of Pale Male (now going on seven years together)...might be in a bad way, chick-wise. Her eggs haven't hatched yet and it doesn't look as if they might. They didn't last year, either.
Still today, hoping that earlier NYTimes news reports might be wrong, FOL's (friends of Lola's) gathered in Central Park to gaze through telescopes and cameras on tri-pods with uber high-powered lenses aimed at the upper floors of the chi-chi Upper East Side building where Lola lives.
Charlotte and Junior, 35th floor residents of Trump Parc, have unhatched eggs, too. Oh, woe, woe be unto them.
New York's famous red-tailed hawk, Pale Male, arrived in Central Park in 1991. There is a Fifth Avenue pecking order with NYC's red-tailed hawks and previous stories on the hawk sagas are here. Not to be confused with April's Falcon II Federal Operation. (Entirely different bird, there.)
Red-Tails in Love is a book about Pale Male. It has a five-star Amazon rating and is called an inspiring piece of writing about birding. It is nice to know that red-tail hawks mate for life. Pale Male's other mates bit the dust, hence the Lady Lola. An especially a nice story on this anniversary day for bird lovers and other lovers on a beautiful day in Central Park and a fascinating engagement with nature in such a manufactured city.
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