Red-Tailed Hawk of New York City

Central Park is incredible and I love spending as much time there as I can when I am over in New York. On my last day of a my recent trip my wife saw a black squirrel (never seen one before) sprinting across the park and making it to safety just as a Red-tailed Hawk swooped in to grab it. I’ve never seen this before and never expected to randomly see this in a city so I got super excited and took a bunch of photos. The squirrel kept thinking it was safe and would try move around only to be swooped on again. Luckily for the squirrel (and me) it ended up getting away safe.

I wonder if it was the famous Pale Male …