From my Manhattan Window (5 Viewers)

[Pinewood]

Hello,

Spring is almost here! The crocuses and even the daffodils are blooming Central Park. Today I saw a phoebe, always andearly arrival and a sharp shinned hawk, rather uncommon for Central Park. Also today, I saw or heard:
American goldfinches, still in winter plumage,
American robins,
Northern shovel[l]lers,
Mallards,
A male bufflehead,
A double crested cormorant,
Blue jays,
A male northern cardinal,
White throat sparrows,
Black capped chickadees,
Tuften titmice,
Red belly woodpeckers, male and female,
Downy woodpeckers, małe and female.
Mourning doves and
White breast nuthatches.


Happy bird watching,
Arthur

 

[Pinewood]

Hello,
Palm warblers, a rusty female blackbird, black crowned night herons, chipping sparrow and an egret have turned up in the last ten days. Meanwhile, phoebes are still fling over the Lake and Turtle pond.
The egret was photographed with an iPhone, the other images are by Louis Agassiz Fuertes from Eaton's Birds of New York.

Happy bird watching,
Arthur

 

[VonMaunder]

Hello,
Palm warblers, a rusty female blackbird, black crowned night herons, chipping sparrow and an egret have turned up in the last ten days. Meanwhile, phoebes are still fling over the Lake and Turtle pond.
The egret was photographed with an iPhone, the other images are by Louis Agassiz Fuertes from Eaton's Birds of New York.

Happy bird watching,
Arthur

Love your Egret capture! Great composition, very 'moody' too!

 

[Pinewood]

Hello,

In the last two weeks, I have a few new birds to report a male cowbird, palm warbler, yellow bellied sapsuckers, Louisiana waterthrush and ruby crowned kinglets.
More to come.


All images by Louis Agassiz fuertes.

Happy bird watching,
Arthur

 

[Pinewood]

Hello,

Last week, I saw a green heron, which has become uncommon on my Central Park walks. It used to be an annual nester near the Lake, until the Lake was "restored," some years ago. It makes more frequent appearance in the north of the Park but they may be nesting on North Brother Island, an East River Island. Other recent sightings include a wood thrush, a blue gray gnatcatcher, male and female Eastern towhees and a female wild turkey. The latter seems to have arrived from Astoria, Queens, by way of Roosevelt Island in the East River.

The photo of the wild turkey was taken with an iPhone; the other illustrations are by Louis Agassiz Fuertes from Birds of New York.

Happy bird watching,
Arthur

 

[Pinewood]

Hello,

In the last few days, I have seen a male Baltimore oriole, a swamp sparrow, and a myrtle warbler [aka yellow rump warbler; while today I saw a black and white warbler,



and a Kentucky warbler. I was alerted to the latter and only had to walk 50 metres out of my way to join the crowd.

Happy bird watching,
Arthur

 

[Pinewood]

Hello,

Migration is picking up. Today's new sightings were a boat tailed grackle, rather uncommon in Central Park, gray catbirds, black throated blue, northern parula, and a female redwing blackbird, in lower left of the last image. It is rather different from the male.



Happy bird watching,
Arthur

 

[Pinewood]

Hello,

I did see an ovenbird, a warbling vireo, a scarlet tanager, a black throated green warbler and a blackpoll warbler over the last week.

Happy bird watching,
Arthur