Tag: photography
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Herons From On High, and a Juvenile Black-Crowned Night Heron Goes Fishing
The past week I’ve hiked up the high trail in Inwood Hill Park that leads up and under the Henry Hudson Bridge. From this high vantage point, observers can get great views of Spuyten Duyvil, the Hudson River, and the New Jersey Palisades. The high trail also affords good views of herons and raptors. I…
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A Heavenly Host of Egrets and a Bald Eagle Strikes a Pose
News from Birds of Inwood includes stories of Great Egrets and a Bald Eagle. Egrets Let’s start with the egrets. A multitude of Great Egrets appeared on August 8 for two years in a row. Circle August 8 on the calendar for next year. Park regulars in Inwood are so accustomed to seeing just one…
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A Common Grackle Takes the Waters of Inwood Hill Park
A Common Grackle has lately been foraging for food and bathing in a flooded part of the path leading to the open athletic fields in Inwood Hill Park. I’ve observed it splashing in the puddle and dipping berries into the cool water. Many other birds have taken to this large puddle, including Mallards, European Starlings,…
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Cedar Waxwings and a House Finch in the Juneberries of Isham Park
If it’s June, go find a Juneberry shrub or tree (or call it serviceberry or Amelanchier, if you prefer) bearing fruit. Cedar Waxwings may be there as well as other birds. They are all after the berries. A fellow birder asked me the other day if I had seen the Cedar Waxwings in Isham Park,…
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Scaling the Heights with the Black-and-white Warblers
For a bird I’ve seen infrequently, the Black-and-white Warbler has played an oversized role in my personal life over the last decade. When I moved to the Inwood neighborhood of Northern Manhattan in 2014, I wasn’t familiar with the area. I just found it to be wild. I had previously lived in Greenwich Village, and…
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The Sparrows of April
The month of April could be told in sparrows. That rusty-capped little sparrow you may have seen this past month in the local parks, the Chipping Sparrow, is currently traveling north from Mexico and South America, stopping here on its long migration journey. It breeds in late April and May. The Chipping Sparrow trills loudly,…
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