After taking a break in the early afternoon, and a detour to Riverside Church, I returned to the Cathedral.
The hawk watchers up at the Cathedral compared their estimates for fledge dates today. The question of the day was, Did we have a precocious fledgling followed by a normal fledgling?, Or a regular fledgling followed by a reluctant one? The general consensus was that we had a precocious, first fledgling.
Seven blocks north and a few blocks west of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine is Riverside Church. A pair of Peregrine Falcons have two fledglings there, who on late Saturday afternoon made the worst racket imaginable begging for food.
On Wednesday, I attempted to get more photographs of the Peregrine Falcons on the General Motors building. This is the best I could do. They’re very far away!
The 55 Water Street pair’s chicks have hatched. To view them go to www.55water.com/falcons and click on the Live Birdcam link.
On Sunday, I had a relaxed day of birding. Here are the highlights of my day.
A little after 7 p.m. on Sunday, a Kestrel decided to give Pale Male a hard time. In years past, crows would have been the major pest, but the crow population has been decimated by the West Nile Virus and there are now very few in the park.
One goes through periods where one doesn’t see anything special while birding, and then all at once you turn a corner and see lots of interesting birds. This happened to me on Thursday evening around 6 p.m. I photographed four birds, including a new bird for my Central Park list, a Merlin on a ten minute walk from the East 70’s to the West 70’s.
