Donegal,
Made my first ever morning visit to the Park looking for Zena, thinking she may be cavorting with Pale Male during the earlier hours when we haven't been able to search for her.
Started
at the 72nd Street entry with the intention of checking new areas to
the west. 927 Nest check with no joy. Metadata time 0914.
Bale of turtles congregate with a backdrop of pea soup green water north of Bow Bridge. Metadata time 0933.
(Well dear readers, didn't I tell you that Central Park is full of turtles so the two tries by Opera Star on Tangerine may not have been his first when it came to turtles.)
No joy finding any Red-tails during a brief DE perimeter look along The
Ramble and I proceeded back to the Sailboat Pond. 927 Nest check no
joy. Metadata time 1000.
Gently swaying in a breeze was Pale Male in his south cedar Hill pine.
Same one he graced last evening and many other times. Metadata time
1007.
Another angle. Metadata time 1009.
Pale Male south Cedar Hill pine scene Metadata time 1010.
(Now there's a perfect Red-tail throne if I ever saw one. Pale Male truly is the Monarch of Central Park.)
He's very comfortably at ease in this perch. Metadata time 1021.
Settles himself a little more suitably in a slight breeze. Metadata time 1031.
Though I was loath to leave his company I ventured over to the west as
far as the Bridal Path hoping to spot Zena. Beresford, 241, and the
cache tree checks were no joy so I returned to the east side expecting
that Pale Male will have flown to another perch. Metadata time 1042.
But no, just like a true friend Pale Male was patient and waiting in the top of his pine. Metadata time 1102.
Pale Male scoping things out. Metadata time 1104.
He launches to the SSE. Metadata time 1108.
Continues to the SSE. Metadata time 1108.
Banking now to the SE. Metadata time 1108.
Soars due east. Metadata time 1108.
Scanned areas down to the Sailboat Pond hoping he was going to
rendezvous with Zena but no joy all the way to a 927 Nest check.
Metadata time 1116.
I had to depart scene and there was a Red-tail on the Oreo antenna watching me go. Metadata time 1124.
Pale Male? Opera Star? Zena?
This is the fourth post in 24 hours so keep scrolling down if you missed one.
Happy Hawking!
Donegal Browne
5 comments:
It might be the light, but the RT that JEff saw seems VERY darkly marked to be pale Male, isn't it? although I think I see the bars in his red tail in the overhead shot, the belly spots just look too fat and pronounced. What do you think?
Dear God, Donegal. Is this really the Jeff from Friday? Truly the human heart can be a dark, dark forest
Ann
Hi Sally,
I too thought the belly band looked very dark for PM even after he may have just molted them.
It also could just be the use of heavy contrast by the camera to give the shot definition.
These pesky modern cameras tend to do things on their own sometimes to "help us" when we'd prefer they didn't!
So sad about Jeff
Ann,
Indeed. Who can truly know the maelstrom others may be going through.
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