From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Thu Dec 9 03:16:53 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iB9BECl9029000 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 03:14:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from ylpvm43.prodigy.net (ylpvm43-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.74]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iB9BCpYK028957 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 03:12:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from earthlink.net (adsl-209-76-108-168.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [209.76.108.168]) by ylpvm43.prodigy.net (8.12.10 outbound/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iB9BCup8002250 for <[[email protected]]>; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 06:12:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 03:12:38 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) Content-Type: text/plain; delsp=yes; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: David Hindin <[[email protected]]> To: [[email protected]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) Subject: [SBB] NYTimes.com Article: Newly Homeless Above 5th Ave., Hawks Have Little to Build On X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5b1 Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Excerpt from NYTimes.com Newly Homeless Above 5th Ave., Hawks Have Little to Build On December 9, 2004 By THOMAS J. LUECK A day after his nest was removed from the facade of a Fifth Avenue co-op building, the intrepid red-tailed hawk known as Pale Male tried to rebuild yesterday, carrying mounds of twigs from Central Park in what experts said might be a futile attempt to reclaim his home of 11 years. "This looks like a Sisyphean task," said Adrian Benepe, the city's parks commissioner, who was one of dozens of people who stopped by the edge of the park at East 74th Street yesterday to watch Pale Male and his mate, Lola. Despite the hawks' instinctive nest building, he said, their twigs would probably blow away because a network of steel spikes that held the previous nest in place had also been removed. With the fate of the red-tailed hawks uncertain, federal officials said yesterday that the co-op at 927 Fifth Avenue, where Pale Male has occupied a 12th floor cornice since 1993, was authorized to remove the nest, despite the angry recriminations from naturalists and bird watchers. . . . Pale Male's fate is a matter of intense speculation by ornithologists and bird watchers. "He will try to rebuild, but as things keep sliding off the cornice, he will be unsuccessful," said Nancy Clum, assistant curator of ornithology at the Bronx Zoo. "He may stay in the area, in a tree or on another building, or he may just pick up and leave," she said. Mr. McAdams said the chances were good that Pale Male would remain as close as possible. "Red-tailed hawks have a great fidelity to the nest," he said. "He has been very successful in that nest over the last 10 years, and he will want to stay as close as possible." . . Snipped Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company Complete story: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/09/nyregion/ 09hawk.html?ex=1103589879&ei=1&en=fa82a43b93427b59 _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]