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By HEIDI SINGER
Hawk-watchers are searching in vain for signs that the city's most famous lover-birds are rebuilding their Fifth Avenue nest — but it's not time to worry yet, experts say.
"It's the dead of winter," said John Blakeman, an Ohio hawk expert. "They've got to spend energy getting food and keeping warm at night. They can't be messing around with the nest when they have to worry about surviving."
Pale Male and mate Lola have been spotted regularly landing on the site of their former nest, at 927 Fifth Ave., ever since the 300-pound pillow of twigs was destroyed by the building's co-op board last month.
"They're definitely around," said filmmaker Frederic Lilien, who made a documentary about the romantic raptors.
Hawk fans are posting any sightings on a network of Web sites devoted to Pale Male, but in the past few weeks the bird has been spotted only bringing a few twigs to his former home of 10 years.
The fact that the birds are sticking around is an encouraging sign, said Blakeman, because it shows they haven't abandoned their territory. Although people might assume the nest is their home, the birds don't live there, he said. They use it only to raise babies.
"Their home is that end of Central Park," he said.