Marie Winn’s Central Park In The Dark On Sale Today!

Marie Winn’s Central Park in the Dark  is on sale today. Congratulations to Marie, whose new book is getting excellent reviews. If you enjoyed Red-tails in Love, you’re sure to enjoy this new book.

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I’m also excited that book is on sale for personal reasons.  The jacket photographs are mine and I’m included as a character in a number of chapters.

The book is a fun, easy read and is available online at a number of online resellers including:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Borders
or your local bookstore

Don’t just take my work for it.  Here is some early praise for the book:

“New York City never sleeps, as Marie Winn proves in this delightful blend of natural history and human obsession. With her usual grace and humor, Winn weaves stories of tiny owls, exotic moths – even slug sex – into a captivating tapestry depicting the nocturnal wonders of America’s most famous park.” —Scott Weidensaul, author of “Of a Feather” and “Living on the Wind”

“How great is New York? Right in the middle of all that finance and culture
and diplomacy, there’s a great reservoir of wildness—and people crazy-wonderful enough to explore it day and night. Marie Winn’s account will make you want to grab your headlamp and head for the park, wherever you live.” —Bill McKibben, author of The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life 

“Marie Winn’s new book is another gem. You pick it up and immediately have fun, learning a lot as you read about what goes on at night in the city.” —Bernd Heinrich, author of Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal
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“Marie Winn lights up Central Park at night with wit, intelligence and a warm humanity that makes this book a love song to the natural world, an elegy for a lost friend, and an invitation to the unknown reader to follow her into the inviting dark.” —Jonathan Rosen, author of The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature

Monday, 6-23-08

We had singing again.  Jean said based on the pitch, she thinks the kids are two boys and a girl.   I have no idea being tone deaf!

After we went looking for the kids, without any luck by the stream, one of the parents called while we were packing up.  As we left we heard another owl call by the arch.

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Astoria Park

Astoria Park has two fledglings in the park.  Both looked like they were doing well.  One was enjoying a branch of a tree, while the other was on a high diving board when I was there.

The foot up or foot out poses are quite common for Red-tailed Hawks.  They aren’t a sign anything is wrong, they’re just shifting their weight from one foot to another.

The Triborough bridge is in the background of the last photograph.

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Inwood Hill and Broadway Bridge

I went up to Inwood Hill looking for the two fledglings, but could only find one of the parents.  Reports are that both fledglings have been exploring the park, and spent most of the week getting mobbed by smaller birds.  I hope to have better luck next weekend.

On the way back, I passed by Broadway Bridge.  I saw both parents, and one of the fledglings.  This is a fun site, since you can see the birds from the Number 1 train platform.  Only in New York City.

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Friday, 6-20-08

It was a fun night.  The young owls sung with their parents.  A parent would led, and the children would follow. The kids were a little off key. Its good they’re practicing.

After the singing, the kids ended up flying off in different directions, but two ended up returning to the stream.  One ended up bathing.  Finally, someone taking a bath on a night other than Saturday!  Our joke about Saturday bath night will have to be retired.

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