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.
After the morning rains, it was a windy afternoon at the Riverside nest. The winds really pick up as you get near the Hudson. The eyasses were fed a hearty meal while I was there and the father made a few passes to see what was going on.
I’ll be away on vacation until Memorial Day. It will be interesting to see how much they will grow in the week I’m away.
I visited the RIverside Park nest after work on Friday, and found three active eyasses with their mother on a nearby branch. She went on and off the nest a few times and fed them twice. The nest was visited by the male once.
The video is about eight minutes long and features various angles of the nest and a few shots of the mother perched above the highway.
The young hawks are starting to show the first signs of getting their new feathers. If you want to see fuzzy eyasses, make sure you visit this weekend.
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.
