Are these red-tailed hawks? I saw them circling above Second Avenue and St. Mark’s Place. The two inserts are full resolution shots from my new Lumix dmc-fz35. I suspect that 12 megapixels is overkill for the camera’s sensor, full resolution should not be so fuzzy. I sharpened it bit in Photoshop.
This is a shot from a couple of weeks ago. Samantha is high up on a tree I never saw her in before. I haven’t seen her since the snow storm of a couple of days ago and was worried for her. But Flickrite Marlene_Forever, who has an apartment overlooking the cemetery, informs me that Samantha is fine, and hanging out on her roof. She’s not trapped there and probably has found some shelter from the elements on the roof. Her wings are healing and she has more mobility.
Update March 5. I followed the sounds of her calls, and found her on the edge of a roof on the northeast side of the cemetery. She was almost hidden by tree branches. When the leaves come back she will have a place of complete privacy from the street.
