Birds from Central Park, last evening and this morning:
Mallard
Northern Shoveler 2 (on reservoir)
Wild Turkey 1 (Maintenance Field)
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 juvenile (on lake, north of Hernshead)
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift 30
Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1
Blue Jay
American Crow
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Veery 8+ (throughout Ramble and Lower Lobe)
American Robin
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Blue-winged Warbler 1 (near Warbler Rock)
Tennessee Warbler 1 (Ramble, near Evodia Field))
Northern Parula
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Cardinal
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
House Sparrow
Hi Catherine,
Your 2 most recent photographs on your new photoblog are really lovely!!!! The most recent Tues. Central Park photo is gorgeous.
Alina
And with the magic word GAZZANIGA I reignite the fires of birdspot conversation!
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(Ok, I barely know who he is. I just like the sound of the name.)
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Yeah, it’s been a really busy week for me, too.
Yeah – BUSY this week! Finishing up drawings, packing for an opening in Maine (I’m in a show at the University of New England in Portland), and yes, it is bird migration and that means I’m awol half the time…
I have some Central Park birding stories to share – it’s not Kansas in those woods! Not that I know anything about Kansas, really. But those woods certainly ain’t it.
SHAZZANIGA!!!!!!!!!!!
hmm, nothing’s happened yet….
I don’t have much, but here’s something that I should have shared a long time ago, yours if you have $3.95 to spare. Not a perfect dramatization, but a beautiful story of love, forgetting, and birds:
http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=RT_TWOX_000005&BV_UseBVCookie=Yes
P.S. Portland is a great city. When’s the show? When you’re up there, you have to eat brunch at Eggspectation (www.eggspectations.com), which is located here:
South Portland, ME
125 Western Ave.
South Portland, ME 04106
Phone: (207) 871-7000
The food is so good that friends and I ate there every week for three years in Montreal, never missing a week even during the legendary ice storm and other insane conditions.
P.P.S. Cathy, do you have any Thanksgiving plans? I was going to invite you and Rob and Char and Christian over, but Char and Christian are booked. I’m still trying to get something to work, though….
Central Park NOT Kansas: WHAT? No “tweakers”?
RE: “SHAZZANIGA!!!!!!!!!!!”: well, I’m of two minds about that.
Mark
The days are growing alarmingly shorter and the chill of autumn is in the air. You pass the little used bookstore on the corner and pause for a moment. You pick up a dog-eared copy of Paul Éluard’s Capitale de la Douleur. You light up a Gauloise and begin to drift off into a disjointed but interestingly lit reverie of Gallic erotic urban ennui. Migration? Why bother?
Alphaveeeeeellllle.
Catherine:
I have been waiting eagerly to hear why CENTRAL PARK is NOT KANSAS. I can guess, but the possibilities are endless. SO WHAT HAPPENED?
I’ll try to post tomorrow morning before I fly off to Portland…
Seeing the film (disjointed, interestingly lit, just as described), you recollect the days when you thought Verlaine was profound:
Tout suffocant
Et blême, quand
Sonne l’heure,
Je me souviens
Des jours anciens
Et je pleure
The realization that this was a half-lifetime ago brings you relief, then bemusement at the relief. You consider a barely audible sigh. You decide against it.
Loved your post, Mark.
Cathy, have you ever been to Mohonk? It’s one of my favorite places on the planet. Once-in-a-decade kind of price tag, but worth every penny, autumn especially.
Dying to go!!
Here is the link to an interesting article, for readers who are not Twitter followers:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/science/earth/16moho.html?8dpc
Cathy, how’s this for an idea? Mohonk has theme programs for just about every week of the year (see http://www.mohonk.com/theme_programs/theme_programs.cfm for details), and lots of them are art-related. Why not market yourself to them as someone who could lead a theme program(s) on a topic(s) of your choice in return for lodging?
Brilliant.