Pale Male continued his nightly habit of hunting before roosting yet again tonight. He’s hunting in area he’s used year after year during the fall.
He’s caught another rat. To those who’ve postulated that Pale Male’s longevity is somehow connected to “a preference for pigeons”, the facts just don’t add up! Pale Male loves his rodents.
I spent a few hours late this afternoon and early evening observing Pale Male. I found him first on the Beresford Apartments and then later east of the Great Lawn. As he has been doing fairly regularly, he had a rat for dinner and then roosted.
On vacation in Brittany, France, I discovered a wonderful two hour cruise to a nature preserve, off of Pleumeur-Bodou. The cuise visits a set of islands that host breeding puffins and gannets, that this year is celebrating its centenial as a nature preserve.
The puffins had already left for the season, but hundreds of Northern Gannets were still raising young on one of the islands. Other birds and mammals seen on the trip were European Oystercatchers, Herring Gulls, Gray Seals, European Shags and a single Peregrine Falcon.
Pale Male in the late summer and early fall seems to fall into a routine in the late afternoon. Hunting near the Great Lawn, eating a meal, and then going to roost. He’s begun that pattern once again.
You would think perching on top of One Fifth Avenue would be a quiet place to watch the city, but tonight both a falcon and a Northern Mockingbird thought differently.
Today, I went looking for hawks in Central Park and was only able to find Pale Male. I found him on his favorite antenna twice, before following him to a Met security camera, and then the area just north of the Polish statue.
He patiently hunted, caught and ate a rat.
