Chuck Will’s-widow At Night
I went down to Bryant Park to look at the Chuck Will’s-widow at night to see if I could take pictures of it feeding. I did get to see it but it was only perching while I visited. At least it was awake!
Category: Other Birds
Chuck Will’s-widow
A Chuck Will’s-widow has been seen in Bryant Park for most of the week. This nocturnal insect eater is a rare visitor to Manhattan, so it has become a celebrity for the New York birder community to visit!
American Tree Sparrow and Chipping Sparrow
At the feeders on Saturday, were an American Tree Sparrow and a Chipping Sparrow. (The Tree sparrow has a bi-colored beak and one wing bar.) They very cooperatively both went to a single bird feeder together a few times.
Second Day with the Common Redpoll
The Redpoll was around for a second day in Central Park.
Central Park Common Redpoll
Central Park in the winter has a number of visitors from farther north. Today’s special bird was a Common Redpoll, a small finch. It certainly made a grey day a bit brighter for me.
Juveniles Red-tails
I saw four Juvenile Red-tails along with the Sheep Meadow adults around the rink and the Pond on Monday afternoon/evening. It was a surprising number.
Past sunset, when I would have expected all of them to be roosting, one of the Juvenile hawks caught and ate a rat, well into the evening. This is the latest I’ve ever seen a Red-tailed Hawk eat.
