Pale Male at the Obelisk
Pale Male at the Obelisk (also know as, Cleopatra’s Needle) in Central Park today. He loves this area in the fall, and patiently waits until the rats come out at dusk.
Tennessee Warbler
Fall migration has been slowly starting over the last few weeks. Birds take some work to find at times, but there are interesting species moving through the area now. Today, I was lucky to have a number of birders direct me to a Tennessee Warbler in Central Park’s Maintenance Meadow. It was a very cooperative bird and it gave great looks for over two hours.
Pale Male Again
Pale Male continues to eat and hunt in the late afternoons east of the Great Lawn in Central Park. He’s not there every day, but he’s there often, as he has in past years. I caught up with him on Friday and Sunday.
Pale Male
Pale Male was in one of his favorite late summer/fall eating spots on Saturday. He likes a tree with a wide flat branch that makes a great picnic table in a triangle shaped lawn that is north of the Polish statue and south of the Obelisk. He was eating a rat. After he was done, he flew over to the Met. He should enjoy now before the roof reopens to visitors.
Tropical Storm, Belted Kingfisher and Catfish
Odds and ends from a quiet day in the park. Central Park lost a number of trees and there were a lot of broken branches blocking paths after Tuesday’s storm. On Turtle Pond there was a Belted Kingfisher, a nice bird for early August. The Gill in the Ramble had two nice sized catfish and lots of minnows. It’s amazing that such a small stream could have such good sized fish.
Governors Island – A Week Later
I got lucky on Monday. When I arrived at Governors Island, the Red-tailed Parents and a fledgling flew back and forth from the weathervane to the communications tower for about 45 minutes. It looks like in early August the fledgling is being a pest. It’s time he/she starts to learn to hunt and he/she was looking for handouts. How this develops over the next few weeks will be fun to watch.
After all of the action was over, I did catch up with one of the adults who was harvesting branches. I think it was the male. It looks like he’s adding twigs to a different spot on the communications tower.
