Category: Salt Marsh
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A Green Heron Joins the Other Dinosaurs, and the Pursuit of the Big Picture
A lively Green Heron has been drawing attention this summer at the Salt Marsh in Inwood Hill Park. While not uncommon for late summer, this member of the heron family stands out among the Great Egrets, Great Blue Herons, and Black-crowned Night Herons. For one, the Green Heron is of slighter skeletal build compared to…
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Blizzard Warning: A Great Blue Heron Hunkers Down, and Other Stories of the Birds of Inwood in a Cold and Snowy Month
Northern Cardinals have resumed singing their song of spring this past week, so you would never know that NYC and parts of the Tri-State area are currently under a blizzard warning. As I write, the temperatures are mild, and the sky is blue. The blizzard warning is the first such weather alert issued for NYC…
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The Hawk and the Kingfisher
By the time the juvenile Red-tailed Hawk landed on a perch near the Salt Marsh on October 4, it was sopping wet. It was practicing its hunting skills by buzzing over the ducks in the water and then chasing a Belted Kingfisher foraging there. The hawk and the fast kingfisher flew circles around one another…
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The Osprey Labor Day Tradition and Notes on Early Fall Migration
In 2023 and 2024, I took pictures of an Osprey perched in the tree on September 1, so this year’s landing makes it three years in a row for that exact date.
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Black-crowned Night Herons of All Ages Arrive at the Salt Marsh
Both juvenile and immature Black-crowned Night Herons are doing just fine at the Salt Marsh at Inwood Hill Park. The sightings underscore a concern as the NYC Bird Alliance warns of their potential extinction by 2035 due to habitat loss and declining numbers in New York Harbor. Restore marshes.
Birds of Inwood 