The Barred Owl continues in the park. This evening it was in a very high perch before flying out east. It was mobbed and chased by some American Robins. There nesting certainly has turned up the aggression level!
After we lost track of the owl, we got to see the Model Boat Pond ducklings got to sleep under their mother.
Bryant Park trapped yet another rare bird. Today, it had a Clapper Rail. It was a life bird for me! To whomever found it and reported it, thank you.
A Green Heron was seen today at the Upper Lobe of The Lake in Central Park. It was near where a pair of Green Heron’s had nested for a few years before Oak Bridge was rebuilt. Those of us who remember the pair got nostalgic or maybe we were nestalgic.
I went up to Inwood Hill Park to look for the Pileated Woodpecker on Saturday. I found it with the help of two local birders, and was also able to see one of the resident Eastern Screech-Owls and the Inwood Hill Park Red-tailed Hawk nest.
I also found a great way to get to Inwood Hill Park from the East Side of Manhattan! I had been taking the E train, then taking A train to the end of the line, but it’s a long trip. I discovered on Saturday, that one can the BxM1 Express Bus. It goes up Third Avenue and then stops in Inwood at 207th Street and Broadway before going on to the Bronx. The trip only took me 35 minutes each way!
Two Northern Rough-Winged Swallows (hopefully, I have the I.D. correct) were working The Pool in the northwest of Central Park on Monday. They would repeatedly return to the same branches.
I caught up with a fabulous Eastern Meadowlark on both Monday and Wednesday in the northern end of Central Park. On Wednesday, it was on the eastern section of the North Meadow.
