By now we all know the sad but inevitable news of Flaco’s demise. I now know what a media circus feels like - a lot of people with agendas are taking advantage of the publicity - many for great causes like Lights Out legislation. I’m all for honoring Flaco's memory, nevertheless, we should not confuse Flaco’s accident in a dark alleyway, whatever we eventually find out about it, with nighttime seasonal migration flyways.
But I don’t want to feed yet another human interest story here as this listserv is for aviary-interest news. So, this past month I’ve observed a red-tail hawk hanging around the nearby Sailor-and-Soldiers monument in Riverside. This morning to clear my head before a Zoom call with NY1 I noticed the red-tail has found a mate and one of them was snapping off twig material for a nest as the other was whistling. They won’t be competing for food with an unfamiliar escapee and hopefully their future fledglings will not be in any danger. I wish them well in this circle of life. Alan Drogin > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Flaco > From: Alan Drogin <dro...@earthlink.net> > Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:50:53 -0500 > X-Message-Number: 1 > > About a month ago I posted about hearing Flaco in our neighborhood. I > connected with Bruce Yolton who’s been photographing and reporting Flaco > sightings on his website Urban Hawks https://www.urbanhawks.com/. I’d been > hearing Flaco regularly since then and a few us in our building have seen him > sleeping on the fire escape adjacent to our courtyard. > > Earlier this evening our super buzzed us to report that Flaco was likely > dead, lying face down, wings splayed out just outside our building’s basement > door. When I ran downstairs to have a look I saw some slight movement and > immediately ran upstairs to report to the Wild Bird Fund and the NY > Department of Environmental Protection. WBF fortunately being only a few > blocks away immediately sent two volunteers to rescue him. > > I don’t know if there is any chance he survived, but our prayers are with him. > > Alan Drogin > > > --- > > END OF DIGEST > -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
