Savannah Sparrows
Thanks to a Tompkins Square Park Birder’s great spotting, I got to watch a group of migrating Savannah Sparrows in the park on Thursday evening. It was a nice surprise in foggy weather.
Category: Other Birds
Indigo Buntings
Central Park had two Indigo Buntings stopping in the park during their migration today. They were filling up on grass seed just south of Sparrow Rock.
Central Park Wild Turkey
Wild Turkeys are not especially rare in the New York area. However, they are infrequent visitors to Central Park. One was seen up in the Ravine on Thursday and it has been exploring the park. I caught up with it on Saturday, near the Falconer’s Statue.
Brood Patch
It was a nice spring evening in Washington Square Park. Bobby, the male was on the Education Building flagpole when I arrived. He went to the nest to give the female a break. She went to a spanish roof at the southwestern side of the park where she preened for about an hour. Her brood patch was visible at times when she faced the wind. While watching her, there was a photogenic Palm Warbler in the park grass.
The female hawk returned to the nest and Bobby then went to the Pless building and appeared to take a chest bath. After about fifteen minutes he few west and we lost him somewhere around the Judson church.
Green-Wing Teals
Two Green-Wing Teal drakes have been hanging out in the Upper Lobe of The Lake in Central Park. Wonderful ducks to watch.
American Woodcock and Wilson’s Snipe
After the snowstorm the park ended up with an record number of over 40 American Woodcocks on Thursday. It also had a Wilson’s Snipe. While the number of American Woodcocks was much lower in the park today, I was able to get photographs of both species. The first two photographs are of the American Woodcock, the rest are of the Wilson’s Snipe.
Link to New York Times about this year’s Woodcock migration.
