Posted on 02/18/2005 11:40:41 AM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers were all atwitter on Thursday over the highly public canoodling of one of their most high-flying celebrity couples -- Pale Male and Lola.
The pair of red-tailed hawks have been spotted flagrantly mating all around the neighborhood of the ritzy Fifth Avenue apartment building where they were evicted, then restored to a brand new, architect-designed love nest last December.
"It's hard to miss them now. They're seriously trying to propagate," bird-watcher Marie Winn told Reuters.
The mating was front-page news for the tabloid New York Post, but Winn said that, hormones being what they are, the mating was never in doubt. The only question, she said, was whether the hawks would take to their old nesting site, which was rebuilt in stainless steel and protected by spikes.
"They didn't reject the nest site and they were faithful to it," Winn reported.
A media frenzy erupted over the birds' eviction by wealthy residents angry over the droppings and half-eaten pigeons littering the elegant building's entrance.
The residents' most visible figure was actress Mary Tyler Moore, while photographer/bird-watcher Lincoln Karim led the protests.
You'd cry too.
Go Hawks !
Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight
Gonna grab some afternoon delight
My motto's always been 'when it's right, it's right'
Why wait until the middle of a cold dark night?
When everything's a little clearer in the light of day
And we know the night is always gonna be there any way
Thinkin' of you's workin' up my appetite
Looking forward to a little afternoon delight
Rubbin' sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite
And the thought of lovin' you is getting so exciting
Sky rockets in flight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight
Started out this morning feeling so polite
I always though a fish could not be caught who wouldn't bite
But you've got some bait a waitin' and I think I might try nibbling
A little afternoon delight
Sky rockets in flight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight
Please be waiting for me, baby, when I come around
We could make a lot of lovin' 'fore the sun goes down
Thinkin' of you's workin' up my appetite
Looking forward to a little afternoon delight
Rubbin' sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite
And the thought of lovin' you is getting so exciting
Sky rockets in flight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight!
--The Starland Vocal Band
Hey! We can't have that! Not in public! Sheesh!
I just started to ask if the celebrity birds were those vultures Bill and Hillary. You beat me to it. :-)
Don`t they make doodoo feces all over the building?
Ahem. That's Virgina's celebrity Bird, not New York's. And he's certainly no hawk.
I had to laugh when reading this:
A media frenzy erupted over the birds' eviction by wealthy residents angry over the droppings and half-eaten pigeons littering the elegant building's entrance.
I guess they would prefer whole homeless to half-eaten pigeons in the entrance?
Nope. Just the celebrities who had their nest removed.
You can see her flying by, looking like the best thing that ever had wings...but you know that somehow, somewhere, some hawk is saying "I have had it up to HERE with her CRAP!!!"
Not something you expect to see in NYC.
Great story and happy for the birds.
On the same line what can a bird do that a man cant do???
The wealthy neighbors are probably ALL liberals. They are all for saving the environment. They are all for everyone one else paying the cost to save the environment. But they are just like the Kennedy's and not wanting a major wind farm off the coast of their estate. Like all liberals say, WE ARE ALL FOR SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT EXCEPT WHEN IT'S IN THEIR OWN BACKYARD.
Coons are very intelligent and very adaptable.
Surprised to hear of them in New Yawk tho.
Tons of em here in CenTex and are a hoot to watch.
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