Hawk, Man and Webcam

New York Times

May 15, 2011

The Hawk Cam was mounted by The New York Times's City Room blog in the office of New York University's president, on whose ledge a pair of red-tailed hawks built a nest and furnished it with three speckled buff-white eggs. "To be two feet away puts you in touch with the transcendent," the university's president, John Sexton, said the day the camera began broadcasting in early April. Things turned out a little messier and the spectacle of Bobby and Violet, as the hawks were christened, morphed into a drama about man and his fraught interactions with the natural world.

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