Category: Prospect Park

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.