on ornamental stonework above a top-story window on a residential housing cooperative at 927 Fifth Avenue (near 74th Street) on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Although Pale Male and Lola collected sticks for a potential nest at a cooperative on the Upper West Side, the Beresford at 81st Street and Central Park West, in 2006, they never nested there. Lola disappeared in December 2010 and was presumed dead. A new mate appeared in early January 2011. This new hawk, Lima (also called "Ginger", because of her dark feathers on her neck and chin), was only in her second year. She was a young adult, with still-yellow irises, indicating her exact age. Her first nesting attempt was in the winter and spring of 2011 using the existing nest. Ginger exhibited behavior consistent with incubation of eggs in mid-April 2011 and two eyasses emerged towards the end of May 2011, producing the first baby hawks in this nest since 2004. Lima died in late February 2012, presumably after eating a poisoned rat. After Lima's death, Pale Male took a new mate, dubbed Zena. The two fledged 3 offspring, two of which were poisoned, rescued, rehabilitated, and then released back into Central Park. In September 2012 Zena disappeared and was presumed dead, and Pale Male took a new mate, called "Octavia" due to her status as Pale Male's eighth mate. , many observers believed that Pale Male was still alive at the age of 31. This would make him one of the oldest known red-tailed hawks on record. However, it had been suggested in 2015 that Pale Male could have died sometime over the years and been replaced without birdwatchers' notice by another male hawk with similar coloring, but no substantive evidence has been provided for either fate. There was no sign that eggs were laid and brooded at Pale Male's nest in 2020 or 2021, so it is possible that the 2021 bird is indeed an aged Pale Male, and is old and uninterested in propagating. Since Pale Male was never banded, it is impossible to confirm whether the Pale Male of 2021 is the same hawk who arrived in 1991. Nest controversy In early December 2004, the hawks' nest and the anti-pigeon spikes that had long anchored it were removed by the board of the co-op. The removal caused an international outcry and a series of impassioned protests organized by