Pale Male and Lola Late On Sunday
As I was rushing out of the park on Sunday evening, Pale Male was in a tree by Turtle Pond and Lola was on a building at 79th and Fifth Avenue.
Blue Grosbeak
A Blue Grosbeak was discovered on Saturday in the Wildflower Meadow. I was fortunate to see it and photograph it on Sunday afternoon.
It spend the afternoon eating seed after seed, which it carefully opened with its beak. It flipped its tail quite frequently and called quite often. It seemed to enjoying the bounty of the Wildflower Meadow.
Central Park’s Mr. October
Pale Male was on a baseball backstop on the Great Lawn when I arrived in the park around 6:00 p.m. He stayed there for quite awhile before attempting to hunt twice unsuccessfully. He then moved to a tree north of the Met to roost for the evening.
Update: I received an email from a reader worried about Pale Male’s unsuccessful hunting attempts. Red-tailed Hawks miss their prey frequently. So, Pale Male missing a few times doesn’t mean anything is wrong. Pale Male is doing just fine.
Pale Male and Lola on Wednesday
Pale Male was on the Met when I arrived at the park. Reports were that he then flew into a nearby tree, made a half-hearted attempt to hunt and then went off to bed.
Lola flew to the Beresford at nightfall.
Yellow-breasted Chat
Central Park has great resources to share information about sightings including NYC Bird Report and a Yahoo! group, ebirdsnyc. Today both sources had news of a Yellow-breasted Chat in the Maintenance Field.
I got to the park as the sun was setting, so my pictures are a little grainy. The Yellow-breasted Chat was a new bird for my Central Park list.
5th Avenue Hawks
Pale Male was on one of his favorite perches on Monday evening, a tree on the north lawn of Turtle Pond. Soon after I arrived, he caught a rodent near where he caught one on Sunday, at the edge of the pond.
