[TN-Bird] "Red-Tails in Love"; Pale Male

From: "Carole Gobert" <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 10:14:52 -0400
I was excited to see that the PBS Nature show this Sunday, May 16,  (8 p.m. 
on Channel 2 in Knoxville) is showing a documentary entitled Pale Male about 
Red Tailed Hawks that nested on a high rise building on 5th Avenue in New 
York City in the late 1990s.  This was the subject of a book by Marie Winn 
entitled "Red-Tails in Love"which I read this past November.  If you haven't 
read this book, I highly recommend it.  Winn not only documents the nesting 
of the hawks but describes birding in Central Park as well.  The book is 
well written and highly entertaining. I couldn't put it down. I quote here 
from the library's website:

"The scene is New York's Central Park, but the rich natural history that 
emerges here - the loons, raccoons, woodpeckers, owls, and hundreds of 
visiting songbirds - will appeal to wildlife lovers everywhere. At its heart 
is the saga of the Fifth Avenue hawks, which begins as a love story and 
develops into a full-fledged mystery. At the outset of our journey we meet 
the Regulars, a small band of nature lovers who devote themselves to the 
park and its wildlife. As they watch Pale Male, a remarkable young 
red-tailed hawk, woo and win his first mate, they are soon transformed into 
addicted hawk-watchers. From a bench at the park's model-boat pond they 
observe the hawks building a nest in an astonishing spot - a high ledge of a 
Fifth Avenue building three floors above Mary Tyler Moore's apartment and 
across the street from Woody Allen's"

Carole Gobert, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee

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