The oval windows of the Beresford Apartments towers were a favorite spot for Lola and Pale Male to perch on in the winter. Lola and Pale Male would either be together or they would be in separate windows, one on the Southeast tower and one on the Northeast tower.
Today, as I saw the pair from the San Remo perched on the Beresford together, it brought back memories of a pair of hawks, I spend years getting to know.
The Bald Eagle seems to have switched the times of its visits to the Reservoir to earlier in the day to be somewhere between 12:15 and 1:30. I caught up with it early this afternoon, when it was raining lightly.
It took off towards the northwest, flying fairly low. It wasn’t clear if it was off to perch in a tree along the west drive or was leaving the park and flying towards the Hudson.
While the eagle ends up clearing the Reservoir of all the gulls, it doesn’t not seem to be hunting gulls or fish. It simply is wading in the water and drinking.
Late in the afternoon, a Bald Eagle visited Central Park’s Reservoir today. It stayed for at least 30 minutes. It took a few drinks of water and a few American Crows kept an eye on it. When it left it exited the park, it appeared to go west down 96th Street.
The earlier Bald Eagle visits this fall, seemed to be correlated with the warmer days, but today was in the 60’s. I’m happy to have my theory about the eagle visits only being on warm days disproven, as I’d like to see the eagle continue to visit as it gets colder in the late fall and winter.
Late this afternoon a Great Blue Heron was fishing on Turtle Pond. It had a great hit rate. I would say eight out of ten tries.
Thanks to the good eyes and I.D. skills of fellow birders, I was able to photograph an Orange-crowned Warbler at dusk this evening at the Turtle Pond Dock. It was just west of the blind.
Turtle Pond had an American Wigeon on Saturday.
The wigeon was found by Chuck McAlexander’s Saturday Slow Birding walk group. As fall migration winds down, rare waterfowl are often found on the lakes and ponds of Central Park, as they make their way further south.
