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- Photo, Dave Sanders for the New York Times
Helen’s Place LLC | Birdblog May 31, 2021
Review
The New York Times, John Leland’s article on May 07, 2021, “He Wasn’t a Bird Person. Then a Hawk Built a Nest on His Fire Escape,” gets straight to the heart of why birds mean so much to people.
This story shows how the connection to birds can enrich our lives, and help us get through tough times.
Generally, birds live in their outdoor birdhouse worlds separate from humans;
However, it’s the occasional intersection between birds and people where magic sometimes happens. This is true in this story about “life, death, renewal and social media” on a West Harlem, fire escape.
“We’re all surviving, we’re all trying to make it,” Mr. Michael Palma Mir told the New York Times about his experience when a red-tailed hawk family moved to his fire escape in New York City, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Why would a bird move to such an unexpected place during such a difficult moment for its human resident, who’d lived in the apartment for decades with no birds?
It’s an intriguing mystery worth reading about.
Related audio/video interview recording:
About why it’s time to get outside and start watching birds:
YouTube, NYSDEC, Liz Wagner, “Top 5 Reasons to Become A Birder”
Others article you may be interested in:
Another bird migratory mystery in a different city:
Helen’s Place LLC, Starlings Missing from Citizen’s Garden: A Migratory Mystery
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