Today, I finally found the reason why there had been such aggressive behavior by two Northern Mockingbirds against the Riverside Red-tailed Hawks, a nest carefully woven into a Pine tree to protect the young Mockingbirds.
These photographs are way off topic for this blog, but Yosemite was too beautiful not to share! Birds included a Western Tanager, Bullock’s Oriole, Red-winged Blackbird, Acorn Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Steller’s Jay, White-headed Woodpecker and a Black-headed Grosbeak.
The Spring migration will be winding down soon and bird watchers attentions will turn to nesting parents in Central Park and their offspring. We already have plenty of babies, including ducklings, goslings and baby Robins.
Here are some baby and nest pictures from the north of the park. Despite the “Geese Police”, a pair of geese has four goslings on the southern section of the Reservoir. The nests are of a Gray Catbird and an American Robin near the Wildflower Meadow.
While at The Oven (an U shaped cove of The Lake in Central Park), I saw a Green Heron stop on a branch while moving from the Lake to the Azalea Pond. It had a stick, so it might be thinking of nesting around the Azalea Pond area.
When I caught up with the bird at the Azalea Pond, it was fishing. The video shows five catches.
A Scarlet Tanager, a bird usually seen high overhead, was at a reasonable height on the Point at The Lake in Central Park today. It was my first good look at one, although I’ve seen at least twenty in the past few years!
After visiting the Riverside nest, I spent a few hours in the Ramble in Central Park. Birds were not abundant, but there some nice discoveries including a Prothonotary Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Black and White Warbler, Northern Waterthrush and Green Heron.
