Category: birds
Prospect Park and Rockefeller State Preserve, 1/18/2021
The above were in Prospect Park this morning, but the deer is from Rockefeller State Preserve in the afternoon.
Prospect Park, 1/15/2021
Prospect Park, 1/14/2021
Almost no birds at all yesterday or the day before, but several today. Very tentatively I suggest that this is a gray-cheeked thrush? The eyering isn’t complete, so I don’t think it’s a hermit thrush, and the face seems streaky gray rather than brown, so I suspect it’s a gray-cheeked rather than a Bicknell’s thrush. On the other hand, though, the tail looks reddish, so it might be a Bicknell’s, after all. Still, I’m putting my poker chip on gray-cheeked. (Am happy to be corrected!)
UPDATE: Alas, I’m told that this is probably just a hermit thrush with a funny eye ring.
There was a Carolina wren high in a tree, singing its heart out to welcome the sunrise, but too high for me to get a picture worth posting. It was easy to get close to the mallards, on the other hand, because they were preoccupied with getting all chesty with each other.
Marine Park Salt Marsh, 1/10/2021
I think this is a juvenile Cooper’s hawk, but I never saw its ventral side, and I still have trouble with hawks, so I’m not sure.
Deep in Marine Park Salt Marsh, all you can hear is the stridulation of phragmites and the distant cawing of brants, and you would have no idea you were in New York City if you didn’t, from time to time, stumble onto something like this:
