3/20, Feeling Broody? And, What's His Name?

Isolde spent at least 45 minutes in her nest when I checked on the cathedral hawks today. Perhaps she's beginning to adjust her behavior to staying in the nest for long stretches. But at 6:20 she took off flying east into Harlem, so she hasn't laid her eggs yet. Last year her first night over in the nest was March 26, and adjusting for the leap day, that's only five days away.

Meanwhile there was no sign of the new male.

And speaking of him... the question has arisen as to what to call him. There's a school of thought that we shouldn't anthropomorphize the hawks by giving them names, but an opposite rejoinder is that calling the new male the "cathedral male" all the time doesn't differentiate him from the previous male (i.e., Tristan) at all. I tend to lean toward the latter argument, plus it's quicker to type a short name. Finally, it's getting a little old calling him "new guy" or "new male".

Names I have seen suggested have included some reasonably obvious ones like Andrew and Luke. And riffing on the idea of "the king is dead, long live the king" that James used for a couple posts on his blog, the names Arthur and Elvis have also been mentioned.

Any names strikes your fancy? Please post your thoughts in the comments.