The Nature of Things

In December 2010, I told you the story of one very lucky Red-tailed Hawk . Stories of animals found injured or ill in the wild do not often have happy endings. This one did and since I needed to be reminded today that sometimes such stories do end happily, I thought I would repeat it for you for this Throwback Thursday. *~*~*~* The Good Samaritan and the Red-tailed Hawk The magnificent Red-tailed Hawk . Red-tailed Hawks  have a claim on our imagination. They are so majestic in appearance, so cool, so... Zen . Some of them have become quite famous.  Pale Male , the 5th Avenue, New York City bird, for example, has his own website and Twitter account and a host of followers and fans, as the authorities found to their chagrin when they tried to move him and his mate a few years ago. The birds' nest on the side of an apartment building at a posh address on 5th Avenue was causing a mess so the owners of the building had it taken down. That resulted in a series of noisy protests and ...

The magnificent Red-tailed Hawk . Red-tailed Hawks have a claim on our imagination. They are so majestic in appearance, so cool, so... Zen . Some of them have become quite famous. Pale Male , the 5th Avenue, New York City bird, for example, has his own website and Twitter account and a host of followers and fans, as the authorities found to their chagrin when they tried to move him and his mate a few years ago. The birds' nest on the side of an apartment building at a posh address on 5th Avenue was causing a mess so the owners of the building had it taken down. That resulted in a series of noisy protests and an international outcry. Those quirky New Yorkers, it seems, preferred the mess and their birds. In the end, they got them back. The Red-tails and their fans were triumphant. Another Red-tailed Hawk found recently near Monroe, New York does not have Pale Male's notoriety or fan base. She doesn't even have a name, although if someone wanted to give her an approp...