Category: Other Birds

Other Birds

Orange-crowned Warbler, Blue-headed Vireo and Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

An Orange-crowned Warbler has been in Central Park near Belvedere Castle.  The light was making it difficult to photograph the bird, but I got to add a new bird to my Central Park bird list. As often happens when lots of birders gather, two hard to find birds were also spotted while we waited for the Orange-crowned Warbler, a Blue-headed Vireo and Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.

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Orange-crowned Warbler
Blue-headed Vireo
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Other Birds

Ring-necked Pheasant

A male Ring-necked Pheasant was reported by Starr Saphir and Lenore Swenson on Wednesday.  It was been staying in the area between Hernshead and Balcony Bridge, along the Lake.  It was still there on Saturday.  A new bird for my Central Park List.

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927 5th Avenue Red-tailed Hawks, Other Birds

Red-breasted Merganser, Eastern Phoebe and the 5th Avenue Nest

On Saturday, I ran around Central Park in the afternoon.

First stop was the Meer, where I got shots of a Red-breasted Merganser drake with his punk hair style.  He’s the bird in the foreground with a Ruddy Duck behind him on the right. He’s a new bird for my Central Park Bird List.
While walking down to the Fifth Avenue nest, I saw this Eastern Phoebe, a sure sign of spring.
When I got to Fifth Avenue, at first nothing was visible.  Lola was on the nest, snuggled into the nest and hidden.  But soon Pale Male arrived and sat on the window the hawk watchers have nicknamed Linda 6.
Lola got up to rearrange herself, and move a few twigs.
But soon settled in out of sight again.
Other Birds, St. John/Columbia Red-tailed Hawks

Park Avenue and St. John the Divine

I started my afternoon on Saturday looking for a pair of Peregrine Falcons on Park Avenue in the upper 40’s.  I didn’t have any luck finding them but did see these two Turkey Vultures flying overhead.

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I then went up to The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine.

The male on the Archangel Gabriel.
The male over Morningside Park.  He’s lost a feather on his right wing.
The male on a railing at the top, northeast corner of 352 West 110th Street.
The male soaring over Morningside Park again.
The male in a tree east of the nest in Morningside Park.
927 5th Avenue Red-tailed Hawks, Other Birds

Sunday on Fifth Avenue

When I arrived on Sunday, Lola was settled down on the nest.  Three Turkey vultures went by flying down 5th Avenue.

One very poor picture of one of the Turkey Vultures.
Pale Male was sitting on a railing of an apartment building around 77th Street.
He flew down and caught a pigeon, which he prepared for Lola.
Then he delivered it stopping in a tree before going to the nest.
I’ve got take out for you.
Switching off so Lola can have her meal.
Pale Male settling down into the nest.
Lola returning to the nest.
Lola landing.
Pale Male exiting.
Lola pops up her head after settling down.  At times, you can’t even see her.