photography – TwoHawksNYC

Gosh, I’m glad I’m not a Turkey on Thanksgiving. Enjoy your seeds. Oops, I mean sides!

“Whatever you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.” – Haruki Murakami

“If I can fool a bug…I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.”

– E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

Gulls, all I really want is Gulls.

The Beastie Boys song “Girls” is pretty catchy and funny (albeit sexist), but one major part of the lyrics was off…today, we right that wrong:

GULLS, all I really want is GULLS

And in the morning it’s GULLS

Cause in the evening it’s GULLS

I like the way that they walk

And it’s chill to hear them talk

And they can always make me smile

From NYC to the Emerald Isle

Buoys and birds.

Tree Swallows

What do you get when you cross a Whooping Crane with a leprechaun?

Cranen O’Brien!

A day at Horicon Marsh: Birding by boat, basking Bald Eagle, brilliant bar.

A Very Temporary Hawk Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art starring Pale Male’s daughter

Hawk-tivity in the East Village has come to a near standstill as Gog pointed out earlier this week. So we ventured back up to Central Park this week to follow up on Pale Male and Octavia’s recently rehabbed and released fledgling (see WINORR releasing the bird, photos by Jean Shum, video by Cathy Weiner).

According to hawk watchers in Central Park, the bird has been on a bit of a cultural tour of 5th Avenue this week. She spent time outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, waited in line to see the Woman in Gold at the Neue, and even checked out the Kandinsky’s at the Guggenheim.

After a couple of days with no sightings, we got word that the hawk was back along the northern edge of the Met at 86th St. and 5th Ave. For hours, the hawk put on a live show for spectators, joggers, and dogs alike.

While visitors were dazzled just to see the hawk so closely, it turned out that she was doing a one-time-only, live, interpretive performance of pieces in the Met’s collection.

We are proud to bring you the highlights of her show.