sept 17
A wise person does not walk around Central Park barefoot, it is just not safe. There are things in the grass that might pinch you.
Like crayfish??? I first realized there are crayfish in the park by watching a Hooded Merganser on the reservoir wolf one down, as voraciously as one might wolf something down that has claws and an exoskeleton. Since then I have seen them in the streams of the North Woods (they were fighting at Glenspan Arch on Tuesday) and at the Harlem Meer.
For a list of birds seen Sept 15-16, click :
77 species
09/15: North Woods to Conservatory Garden
09/16: Strawberry Fields (fallout over 6 hours) to Boat House
Canada Goose
Mallard
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Osprey
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Strawberry Fields)
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (N Woods, The Loch)
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker (N Woods)
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Least Flycatcher (N Woods)
Eastern Phoebe (Ramble)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Strawberry Fields)
Red-eyed Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo (Strawberry Fields - seen well with Red-eyed Vireos)
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Veery
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson’s Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Tennessee Warbler (Strawberry Fields)
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler (Harlem Meer)
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush (The Loch)
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Canada Warbler
Chipping Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow (FOS Willow Rock)
White-throated Sparrow (FOS Strawberry Fields)
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (fallout numbers in Strawberry Fields)
Indigo Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird (The Loch)
Common Grackle
Baltimore Oriole
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
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Wow, crayfish in Central Park! That IS surprising. I’m glad you didn’t lose any toes!
Are you gonna draw these awesome yet invasive creatures? I just love the image of you living in NYC, finding incredibly strange living creatures. This is why you need to be there.