Harbor Seals
On winter Sunday afternoons, NYC Audubon hosts a harbor cruise in association NYC Water Taxi. I took the cruise today and had a great time watching birds and harbor seals out in the NYC harbor.
Category: Other Animals
Coyote Captured In Riverside Park
A Coyote was captured in Riverside Park on Saturday and later released in a Bronx wilderness area. After a few difficult captures that resulted in Coyote deaths in the last decade, it's great to see Animal Care & Control and the New York City police department coordinating well, and humanly relocating Coyotes.
The Gothamist had a nice article entitled, Coyote In Riverside Park Forces NYPD Out Of Slowdown.
Opossum
Today was the Christmas Bird Count for Central Park. The count had a fairly standard variety of species and population of birds. The highlight was three Ring-necked Ducks on the Reservoir.
But the real attraction for me was an Opossum that was found on the west side of the park. It was a first for me in Central Park.
On Vacation
I’m watching mammals and rocks this week in Glacier National Park. I’ll be back to hawk watching early next week.
Réserve Naturelle des Sept-Iles, Bretagne, France
On vacation in Brittany, France, I discovered a wonderful two hour cruise to a nature preserve, off of Pleumeur-Bodou. The cuise visits a set of islands that host breeding puffins and gannets, that this year is celebrating its centenial as a nature preserve.
The puffins had already left for the season, but hundreds of Northern Gannets were still raising young on one of the islands. Other birds and mammals seen on the trip were European Oystercatchers, Herring Gulls, Gray Seals, European Shags and a single Peregrine Falcon.
RIver Otter
At the birding festival, I got a chance to go down to the Viera Wetlands. While there this River Otter took a dust bath.
