At this Bronx field, it’s called a “fowl” ball.
Hawks are nesting in the stadium lights that shine on a diamond at Roberto Clemente Ballfield in Crotona Park — and they’re ruffling the feathers of little-league players.
“They all have their houses on the lights!” said Grand Slam Foundation CEO Belkis Lora.
“They’re always there. Sometimes they confuse the kids,” she added, explaining that the birds are often the mistaken for balls.
The feathered bleacher creatures frighten parents because they swoop down from their high perches and onto the field where their tiny Derek Jeter wannabes are playing ball.
“There was this one time that one of them went down,” Lora said. “There was a kid on third base, and he couldn’t even make the play because there was a bird that got between him and the kid.”
The regal brown-and-white birds appear to be red-tailed hawks, like the Pale Male, who famously nested with his girlfriends on a ritzy Fifth Avenue building across the street from Central Park.
Grand Slam wants what’s best for both birds and ballplayers.
“We want them relocated,” Lora said. “They’re nice birds, but the only thing is they interfere with the games.”
“It would be good if they could be relocated in the park,” she added.
A Parks Department spokesman said, “Parks has not received any complaints about any hawks in Crotona Park acting aggressively, but our rangers will investigate and monitor this area.”