Both the East and the West Ponds out at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge were very high after the rain on Saturday. A Red-necked Phalarope was at the south end of the East Pond. It was a life bird for me.
I missed by a half hour, two Bald Eagles, who had flown over the pond before I arrived. Win some, lose some!
The juvenile Red-tailed Hawk, who spends its time in the North Woods and the Great Hill (and most likely is one of the St. John the Divine offspring) was hunting in The Loch on Saturday afternoon.
It has shocked me that no one seems to be interested in this youngster. Lots of people complain about how much they miss watching the offspring of Pale Male and Lola. But, here’s a wonderful juvenile bird only twenty five blocks north of Pale Male and Lola’s nest and no one is watching it.
The most common warbler, I was missing from my Central Park list was a Cape May Warbler. Luckily, there were a number of them on Saturday near Sparrow Rock (or is it Sparrow Ridge?, the area west of the Locust Grove and east of Tanner’s Spring)
In any case, this just leaves me with a Blackburnian, Cerulean, Golden-winged, Kentucky and Worm-eating missing from my list. (I’ve seen a Worm-eating Warbler about five times, but have never captured a photograph.)
A Downy Woodpecker goes after Crab Apples!
The fall migration is in full swing in Central Park and on Friday I finally got to see a Mourning Warbler. These shy birds require of lots of patience to see.
Pale Male and Lola were on opposite sides of the same tree on the western edge of the Great Lawn late this afternoon. As it got later, she went west to the SE tower of the Beresford and he went east, typical for this time of year.
The first three pictures are of Pale Male and the rest are of Lola.
