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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pinewood" data-source="post: 3009567" data-attributes="member: 10255">WadersHello all,We are now between migrations.  I do no expect to see much new, for weeks.   Perhaps I will fortify myself for an few kilometers of walking and visit parts of Central Park, where I usually do not tread.  As I like to say, "I do not usually go upstate,"  an expression of a Manhattanite's parochialism.That [/b] ruby throated hummingbird[/b] is still sitting on her nest, which I will illustrate with the same Fuertes illustration, pulled from a different source.  Yesterday, I saw an egret, working the Lake, but today, after a long interval, I saw another black capped night heron, which are usually plentiful in the summer.  Shortly after seeing that heron, torrential rain drove me home.  The usual suspects are still in the Park, but I often hear the red bellied woodpecker, at work, and I sometimes manage a sighting.Yesterday, I saw two raccoons, up a tree, sleeping in a hollow.Happy bird watching,Arthur :scribe:</blockquote>