apr 20
Gotta leave this drawing alone for a while… On another note, here is a list of birds from Central Park from my last two visits, both confined pretty much to the Ramble:
Canada Goose
L’affair Mallarde
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Red-tailed Hawk
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Blue Jay
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
BROWN CREEPER
RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET (scads)
BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER (a few)
HERMIT THRUSH (10 - 15 in a loose flock, others scattered throughout the park)
American Robin
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER
PINE WARBLER (1)
PRAIRIE WARBLER (1 - 2, singing)
PALM WARBLER (small numbers, moving through with mixed flocks)
EASTERN TOWHEE (2 - one male, one female)
CHIPPING SPARROW (still small numbers, appearing on lawns)
Song Sparrow
SWAMP SPARROW (1)
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco (still a few around)
Northern Cardinal
Common Grackle
House Sparrow
There are certainly other migrants throughout the park, but I haven’t had time to go for a serious look.
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April 21st, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Central Park seems to resemble Eaton Canyon in that, if you find the right places, you can’t see any evidence that you’re in an urban area.
April 21st, 2008 at 6:47 pm
It’s not, really, in reality… the idea behind these drawings is to romanticize and homogenize them a bit, so that even though they are from all over the country and are from diverse types of “natural” spaces (nature preserves, urban and rural parks, abandoned lots or fields, backyards, etc.), they are not necessarily recognizable as to place. The drawings are as much about how people think about nature as they are about the places I have visited. Which is to say, that all of these environments are heavily man-managed, and that our ideas of what wilderness is are pretty skewed.
Hopefully, that makes some sense, and is not too art-speakish.
April 21st, 2008 at 9:38 pm
I THINK it makes sense - would be interested in what you did with our back yard in that context . . .
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:38 pm
JUST interviewed JONATHAN ROSEN author of THE LIFE OF THE SKIES: BIRDING AT THE END OF NATURE, which really has to be the most literate and meaning-laden book about birding I have ever read. He birds Central Park a lot and has a lot to say about making sense of his experiences there. The mantra of the book, from a poem by Robert Frost about the Ovenbird, is:
“what to make of a diminished thing?” Rosen is one of the few birders I know that you can talk with one minute about Walt Whitman and the next minute discuss the symbolism of the hoopoe in the epic by Sufi mystic Farid ud-Din Attar. Central Park seems to be some epicenter for birding experiences, but of what specifically I don’t quite know.
Mark L, living on the periphery and lovin’ it