HAWK-STALK BUST

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A hawk-hugging protester has been busted for terrifying the two young sons of CNN anchor Paula Zahn and stalking the celebrity mom and her hubby, authorities said yesterday.

"Bring back the nest! Bring back the birds!" Lincoln Karim, 43, first shouted at Zahn's 7-year-old son, Austin, who was walking the family dog with his nanny near their Fifth Avenue co-op around 4:25 p.m. last Thursday, law-enforcement sources said.

The stunned boy immediately ran cowering back into the building's doorway, they said.

A ranting Karim then accosted Zahn's 11-year-old boy, Jared, and her hubby, Richard Cohen, outside the building at 927 Fifth Ave. twice Sunday, screaming the same protest chants, officials said.

Cohen heads the co-op board that infamously booted Pale Male the hawk and his mate from their roost on a 12th-floor ledge of the building last week, creating a citywide uproar.

Karim, a video engineer for Associated Press TV news, first allegedly trapped the boy and his dad as they tried to sneak into a service entrance. He then verbally attacked the pair again as they tried to leave.

Around midnight Sunday, Karim ran up to Zahn as she arrived home in front of the building and began yelling at her, authorities said.

The final straw for the besieged family came Monday, when the suspect allegedly confronted the news anchor as she tried to get into her chauffeured car around 12:20 p.m. in front of the building.

Karim broke out of the protest crowd to rush Zahn, again screaming in her face, authorities said. Her chauffeur jumped out of the car and eventually push Karim out of the way.

Cops were then called.

Zahn and Cohen could not be reached for comment.

Before details of Karim's alleged attacks surfaced, animal lover Mary Tyler Moore, who also lives in the building, said she visited the police precinct to intervene on the suspect's behalf — to no avail.

"I'm terribly confused and sorry about Lincoln getting arrested," she said at the time. "I don't know why they would do such a thing."

Karim was charged with stalking, aggravated harassment and endangering the welfare of a child, and was expected to spend the night in jail.

Karim, 43, runs a Web site devoted to Pale Male that published the names and numbers of building residents.

Dr. Robert Schwager, a plastic surgeon who rents space in the building, said callers to his office have been threatening to spray-paint the building.

And the board's lawyer, Aaron Schmulewitz, stopped counting after receiving 200 e-mails and phone calls.

"I'm sure if the nest had fallen and killed a child in the street, neither the board members nor I would have received a fraction of the hate mail that we're receiving," he said.

The hawk shock came just as the tale of Pale Male was coming to a fine-feathered finish.

Pale Male and girlfriend Lola could be returning to their digs as early as today, after the co-op board agreed to replace the anti-pigeon metal spikes that once anchored their nest.

Management ripped out the spikes and stuffed the decade-old nest into garbage bags last week, after residents tired of their publicity-generating squatter and the pigeon carcasses he sometimes dropped.

Plans were being drawn up yesterday to create a protective shield around the area to stop debris from falling off the 12th-floor ledge.

"Hawk-hugging protesters," that's hilarious. I'm all for enviromentalism, but you've got to have a lot of time on your hands to protest the movement of a halk's nest in NYC.

not really.The plight of hawk's is big front page news everyday in NYC.They even made a movie about Pale Male.Here is the official websight
http://www.palemale.com/

Yeah, I saw the movie a few weeks ago on PBS. Don't get me wrong, I want the best for the birds, I just can't comprehend protesting because of it.