Early Friday evening, after a fruitless search for the fledglings, I got to see a Double-crested Cormorant catch a small catfish.
Just as I was about to give up and walk out of the park, I ran into a fledgling eating a pigeon just above the low west path that goes from 110th and Morningside Drive by the ball fields towards the pond.
There are four hatchlings on the Green Heron nest along Central Park’s lake. The smallest one looks to have been born within the last day or two. More pictures later.
Better late than never, Central Park’s nesting Green Herons have at least two new hatchlings on their nest.
I’ve just gotten back from ten days in Finland and Estonia. I spent most of my time with family, but couldn’t resist taking a few bird photographs.
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.
Last week, I saw a Mockingbird in the garden on the south side of the Cathedral, and knew it was only a matter of time before I’d see a confrontation between this Mockingbird and a Red-tailed Hawk near the nest. (This is a different Mockingbird than the one that harassed the Red-tail on 110th Street.)
This morning the female adult was about twenty feet from the nest when a Mockingbird attacked. After acting like the Mockingbird was nothing more than an annoying insect, the Red-tailed moved north to a St. Luke’s Hospital perch.
