After seeing the fabulous Slaty-backed Gull and the Glaucous Gull this am early I decided to take a walk around the Ramble and North end to see what was around. Besides all the usual stuff I loved that there were hawks all over the place it seemed. Everything i was seeing was giving great looks and photo ops. I had an adult Cooper's and a Red-tailed Hawk at the Point in the Ramble. Then over by the Azalea Pond/Feeders area I had two Red-taileds attacking a male Great Horned Owl (which flew off north about 5 minutes later). Then I made my way up to the northwest end of the park and had a juvenile male and an adult female Cooper's calling to each other and bathing in the stream there. All of these hawks were totally oblivious to anyone who was nearby giving great looks, espcially the pair of Cooper's. Then on the way out along Central Park West around 102 st. I had another juvie male Cooper's or maybe the same one from before sitting in a tree above the sidewalk. Very cool day for seeing these great birds close and personal:-) Of course while I was doing all this i was missing the Black-headed, Iceland, and Lesser Black-backed Gulls that showed after I left:-( Still an awesome day. Andrew Andrew v. F. Block Consulting Naturalist 20 Hancock Avenue, Apt. 3 Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York 10705-4780 www.flickr.com/photos/conuropsis/albums --
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