Forgot to add... Yeah, there are many red-tailed hawks in the city. I live in Chelsea, not near a park at all, and there is one that occasionally swoops down and perches on a building opposite my back fire escape. One day when I was out there working with my plants (don't tell the fire dept. that I have plants and mini trees on my back fire escape!!!!) it flew right over my head and over to that building. Magnificent.
But problematic as there's a troop of mourning doves that I feed in the mornings on the the fire escape. I've had to rescue a few who barely survived attacks. There is one dove now who looks like he's been scalped and his tail feathers are missing. Must have been the hawk.( I am calling the dove "Tomahawk". I'm going to see if he improves on his own before catching him and getting him to a vet.) I've managed to create a little bit of wilderness amidst the concrete and chain link fences wrapped in barbed wire that I see from the back. Nothing like seeing a mourning dove perched comfortably on barbed wire every morning! Jenny On Mar 31, 9:55 pm, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jenny, > I've been meaning to ask you, Do you know if there are any deer in any of the > big parks in any of the 5 boroughs of NYC? I'm very curious. I know you have > big birds such as hawks in Manhattan, so I'm wondering about deer in any of > your parks. > > Also, there are a couple of books about NYC that I'm curious if you have > seen, or if you have read them. For example, > "New York City Trees", by Edward Sibley Barnard, and published by The City of > New York, Department of Parks and Recreation. > The other book is "Wild New York, A Guide to the Wildlife, Wild Places, and > Natural Phenomena of New York City", by Margaret Mittelbach & Michael > Crewdson. > > I own both of these books and enjoy them. I'm wondering if you own them too, > or if you've seen them before. > > From my reading through the first book, it seems that NYC has a lot of great > trees. > > Barry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
