After dinner, I caught up with Flaco, Central Park’s Eurasian Eagle-Owl. He was hooting from a Black Locust, the Snowy Owl used over two years ago. He was holding a half-eaten Brown Rat. He was in no rush to finish off the rodent, and hooted from a few trees, moving between them every so often. Occasionally we heard a hoot with a different pitch, and after looking at the video feed realized it was because he would sometime hoot with the rat in his mouth, which altered the note.

Eventually, he finished off his meal. When we left the park, he appeared to have begun hunting yet again.

His hooting was a few blocks away from the Red-tailed Hawk nest on the Museum of the City of New York and we wondered what the Red-tailed Hawk pair thought about the presence of the owl.