A northern flicker, in Riverside Park in New York City.
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I still didn't have my birding lens, but since I had to meet someone near Central Park in NYC I did the best I could. So, by the west end of the Pool: two pictures of what I (or, more accurately, Merlin) thinks is a Canada warbler, and two of a black-and-white warbler.
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Last for today: a pair of northern mockingbirds in Morningside Park, a block or so from the Columbia University campus.
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Believe it or not, there was a time I wondered if I was ever going to see a double-crested cormorant. Well, today there was one at the Turtle Pond in Central Park and many at the North Gate House at the Reservoir. Plus, the usual black-crowned night heron at the Pool.(For some reason, the second picture of it strikes me as looking rather satanic, what with looking over its shoulder and the red eye…)
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A great blue heron flying across the Harlem Meer in New York City's Central Park before alighting, a tiger swallowtail butterfly in the Butterfly Garden, and a black-crowned night heron in its usual tree at the Pool.
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RT @jacquelineUWS :
Last night we were talking about how we hadn’t seen Flaco hunt since he moved to the North Meadow when all of a sudden he swooped down, caught a rat, and ate it whole. He looks so pleased with himself.💕🦉 #birdcpp #birds #birdwatching #flaco

From my archives, for the Fourth of July, some bald eagles: Riverdale Park (12/8/2019, Bronx, New York), Riverside Park (1/24/2020, Manhattan, two blocks from my campus), Prospect Park (2/8/2023, Brooklyn, New York), and the Tracy Brook Wildlife Sanctuary in Massachusetts (4/30/2022). The last is my favorite: for the others, I was out looking for eagles, but for the last, I was photographing great blue herons when a bald eagle flew overhead
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A great egret catching fish in Morningside Park in New York City. Three little fish—and down the hatch!
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For (at least) the second year in a row, there is a peregrine falcon family in a church in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The recently fledged juvenile in the first picture had just finished eating a pigeon, then took off. One of the adults watched all this from across the street.
Later, I went to Central Park where I saw a double-crested cormorant on a rock near the dock in the Turtle Pond.
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An American robin in Riverside Park in New York City, gathering nesting material. This is rather late in the season for that—for a second nest and brood, perhaps?
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RT @Above96th@twitter.com

🎉🎉🎉I was in Central Park even earlier than usual this morning and look who I ran into--a coyote! We stared at each other for a few moments before it trundled off. Isn't it beautiful? This is no more than 100 yards from NYC's iconic Fifth Avenue!🥰🥰🥰#birdcpp #coyote

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Above96th/status/1670024420109197313

A great spot for your nest 🪺 !
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RT @jacquelineUWS :
Flaco sporting the wet look after the rain last night. Yesterday marked the beginning of his fifth month of freedom in Central Park.💕🦉 #flaco #birdcpp #birds #birdwatching

RT @Above96th :
I spent a little time with Flaco this morning in Central Park just after he finished his breakfast (see video below). He has found a daytime roost where he's unbothered by crows and blue jays, so he's eating well and getting plenty of rest! ❤️🦉❤️#birdcpp #Flaco

RT @jacquelineUWS :
Flaco looking a little glum as workers removed his Komatsu excavator from the Mount last night.💕🦉🚜 #birdcpp #birds #birdwatching #flaco

There was a great egret in the Salt Marsh at Inwood Hill Park in New York this afternoon. In turn: the egret caught a fish, the egret posing (it was low tide), the egret dunking its head going after more food (unsuccessfully, I think), and the bird with its feathers all fluffed up.
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I managed to get to Central Park today for the first time in over a month. There were two black-crowned night herons in the Pool. The first, on the south side, is first all fluffed up and then walking to a new hunting spot. The second is on the north side. Later, both took flight at about the same time. In the Loch, I got a nice picture of a red-winged blackbird.
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I haven't been able to get out with my camera, but I had a chance to today. So: here's a red-tailed hawk perched atop an American eagle atop a flagpole on the Columbia University campus, and a grey catbird in Riverside Park.
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I guess that this mourning dove figured that I’d be sympathetic if it picked MY air conditioner on which to build a nest …

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RT @davidlei
He sure loves heavy machinery. Flaco, the Central Park Eurasian eagle-owl, perched on the hopper of a soil screening machine with the arm of an excavator in the background.

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