The Cooper’s Hawk that has been consistantly roosting in one tree on a hill by the Lake, was there again tonight. When I arrived it was chasing off another Cooper’s Hawk from the area, but soon settled in for the night. This makes it over a month that the bird has used the same tree to roost.
The oven is a cove on the Lake of Central Park. It attracts a good number of birds during each season, including the winter.
Today, there were a number of birds, including a Red-tailed Hawk, a Hermit Thrush, numerous Northern Cardinals, numerous Tufted Titmice, and a Cooper’s Hawk that has been roosting in the same location nearby since at least early January.
On Sunday, I spent the late afternoon looking for Long-eared Owls without success. But I did run into a few hawks.
On the Beresford Apartments, was Pale Male in the oval window, and Lola soaking up the sun on a south facing ledge.
This young hawk was in the Ramble making its way between the official and the not so official bird feeders looking for customers to eat.
This Sharp-shinned Hawk, with prey in talons, was being chased by a Red-tailed Hawk near 69th Street and the West Drive. The Sharp-shinned Hawk evaded the Red-tail and got away with its prey. Everything happened too fast for me to capture the action, but it reminded me that winter is the time to see lots of raptors in New York City.
I’m starting to catch up with my photographs from Florida. Here are some pictures of an American Kestrel and some Wood Storks taken around Flamingo.
I finally made it to over 200 life birds today, with the 200th being a Bald Eagle and the 201st being a Common Merganser. The pictures weren’t that good today, but I’m having fun expanding my range outside of Central Park.
Red-Shouldered Hawks are rare visitors to Central Park, so it was a pleasure to see them in the Everglades over my Christmas/New Year’s break while visiting Florida.
The first four photographs are of a juvenile bird, then some of two adults. The last two are of an attack on an egret by a Red-shouldered Hawk at the Shark Valley Visitor’s Center. (I was the only one among about 30 visitors who noticed the attack. I guess people being unaware of nature isn’t only limited to the city!)
