I saw a Silver-haired Bat (and recorded its echo location) flying around the southern end of Turtle Pond. On days early or late in the season it is not uncommon to see a bat in the late afternoon. Nice to see my third bat in a week.
I was able to confirm that the nest at 310 West 72 Street was active today. So that gives us ten known active nests in Manhattan for 2109.
Below are video and images from the 310 West 72nd Street nest.
St. John the Divine nest is active again this year. I saw the two parents exchange nesting duties.
I was doing a sweep of northern Manhattan and St. John was the only positive of note on my tour. I came up empty at CCNY and J. Hood Wright Park, both of which have had their old nests removed. There have to be nest between St. John and Inwood Hill Park. Where are they?
One of the joys of birding in Central Park is that will all of the great birds, come great bird watchers who find rare things. Today’s great find was a Silver-haired Bat that must have been disturbed during the day and ended up sitting on a sawdust covered log in the Tupelo Meadow.
At first the bat looked like it might have died, with no sign of life. But as it got darker, the bat became more and more active, until it flew off into the dim light of dusk.
Randalls Island has had a nest in the lights of Field 10 just north of Icahn Stadium for a number of years. When there were Peregrine Falcons on the hospital, I think we skipped a year, but otherwise the pair has breed consistently over the last few years.
This year was no exception. The female was on the nest and in the warm sun left the eggs for a few minutes to take a stretch.
The Upper East Side female and her new mate have returned to the nest she used three years ago at 10oth and Third Avenue. (Many of you may remember her from her nest last year at 96th and Lexington, where she lost her mate and had a fledgling with frounce. They year before that, the pair tried to nest at 95th and Lexington.)
When they moved, two new apartment buildings were being built on Third Avenue. I wonder if now, with the construction long completed, the female felt comfortable returning to Third Avenue.
