Bald Eagle on Central Park Reservoir

Late in the afternoon, a Bald Eagle visited Central Park’s Reservoir today. It stayed for at least 30 minutes. It took a few drinks of water and a few American Crows kept an eye on it. When it left it exited the park, it appeared to go west down 96th Street.

The earlier Bald Eagle visits this fall, seemed to be correlated with the warmer days, but today was in the 60’s. I’m happy to have my theory about the eagle visits only being on warm days disproven, as I’d like to see the eagle continue to visit as it gets colder in the late fall and winter.

American Wigeon

Turtle Pond had an American Wigeon on Saturday.

The wigeon was found by Chuck McAlexander’s Saturday Slow Birding walk group. As fall migration winds down, rare waterfowl are often found on the lakes and ponds of Central Park, as they make their way further south.

Indigo Bunting

Sparrow Rock has had an Indigo Bunting for a few days. It’s been eating grass seeds. Seed eating bird have beaks that let them separate the husk from the kernel. Watching this bunting, strip of grass seeds, and then husk the seeds, has been fairly easy. It has often been eating seeds within fifteen feet of observers.

North Face of the North Tower of the Beresford Apartments

The San Remo pair have been spending a great deal of time on the towers of the Beresford Apartments at 81st and Central Park West this fall. The female has been using a window, I don’t normally see her in. The oval “window”, which is actually bricked on this side, on the north face of the north tower. This is a perch, in past years I failed to monitor. She has also been perching on a ledge on the northeast corner of the tower. So, it’s worth keeping an eye on this side of the tower, if you’re at Sparrow Rock or coming south from the reservoir on the west side.