{"id":39689,"date":"2013-08-21T12:35:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T16:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=39689"},"modified":"2013-08-21T12:35:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T16:35:37","slug":"birds-of-prey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/08\/wildlife\/birds-of-prey\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds of Prey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Red-tailed<\/a>Pat Gonzalez<\/a> is back this week with a fresh highlight feel from her adventures in the Garden, something I always eat up. As both a guest and a Visitor Services Attendant with the NYBG<\/a>, Pat has spent the past five years documenting the lives of our raptor residents through the lens of her camera, creating a timeline of activity among the Great-horned Owls<\/a>, Red-tailed Hawks<\/a>, Cooper’s Hawks, Kestrels, and other winged wildlife that crosses her path. While I’m sure she’ll laugh off the comparison, I like to think of her as our very own Jane Goodall of the bird world.<\/p>\n

Debussy’s <\/em>“Clair de Lune” is a nice touch, I think, that highlights the streamlined elegance of these birds. Though a brief look back into Pat’s Plant Talk<\/em> postings<\/a> will show you just how well it belies their hilarious clumsiness at times. There’s something about seeing a young hawk divebomb a park bench in its efforts to figure out hunting that I can’t help but laugh over.<\/p>\n