Images of Pale Male, Red-tail hawk, stirring up a flock of pigeons, and with prey...

Above images, Pale Male, as New York Birders had chosen to baptise this amazing specimen of
a Red-tail hawk, stirring up a flock of potential prey... Below we get the raptor feeding on a freshly
killed pigeon inside Central Park... At the time this bird was about 11 years old, and by then not
just rather successful, given the circumstances, but also the most filmed, photographed and written about on the planet. A skillful hunter, a street wise survivor and quite a prolific breeder with some
19 fledglings (by 2000) to his record. I can’t forget witnessing the hawk as he literally pressed the
life out of his hapless prey on the ground before taking it to this spot on a branch of a nearby tree.