According to this other article, he is doing what comes naturally on a consistent basis.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/281777p-241405c.html
Good news! I've been watching the news with the eyes of a bobsmythhawk. I am so happy---as are at least thousands of interested birders et al.
Flyboy, Thanks for the update. I'm glad to hear that the nest is rebuilt and that the loving couple is doing the deed.
When will man learn that nature always wins?
New York Daily news article wrote: In December, the co-op board of 927 Fifth Ave. took down the bird's nest amid complaints of hawk leftovers raining down on the ritzy sidewalk.
Um forgive me for this...
but
Arent new york streets covered in pigeon sh!t ALREADY?
What is the big diffrence?
Pigeons poke around in more trash and more infected sewers them these hawks do! How are the HAWKS more of a health risk?
jese... arrogant people.. complaining about bird droppings on a SIDEWALK, that is OUTSIDE where birds SH!T ..
oy
I am sure the birds don't appreciate us human "left overs" like smoke, cigarette butts, papers, and other JUNK we leave laying around.
BINGO
they just cant tear down the doors of the apt building and make them homeless to express thier uncomfort.
I also saw a post about rats coming out at night. I guess he hasn't seen some of those back roads in the Back Bay. In full daylight I can see dozens of rats in back of the apartments (where the trash is). There aren't many who want to stroll on those thoroughfares. I remember when I was a kid (many decades ago) I saw a fight at mid day between a wharf (or Norway) rat and a terrier, which is also called a ratter. The terrier lost with it's throat ripped open.
New York Daily news article wrote:complaints of hawk leftovers raining down on the ritzy sidewalk.
maybe its not guano, but partially eaten rat & pigeon that are the problem...
U.S. National - AP
AP
New York High-Rise Hawks Have Egg in Nest
21 minutes ago
By RICHARD PYLE, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK - New York's high-rise hawks are expecting an addition to the family.
Pale Male and his mate, Lola, who live on the ledge of a Fifth Avenue apartment building overlooking Central Park, have at least one egg in their nest, according to the Pale Male.com Web site run by Lincoln Karim, a video engineer with Associated Press Television News who devotes most of his spare time to monitoring the birds.
In December, the board of the co-op apartment building, whose tenants include actress Mary Tyler Moore and CNN anchor Paula Zahn, removed the hawks' huge nest on a 12th-story ledge, calling it a hazard.
The board later bowed to public outrage and pressure from the city and environmentalists, and restored a row of anti-pigeon spikes that the hawks had used to anchor their nest. Pale Male and Lola immediately rebuilt their nest.
The male hawk has sired 23 chicks with four mates since he first set up housekeeping at 927 Fifth Ave. in 1993.
Volunteers use the Web site to record every detail of the hawks' lives.
"Lola appears to be turning the eggs every half hour or so. Pale Male had two sittings today between noon and sunset," said an entry posted Sunday.
