Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Around the nabe

Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.646519,-74.026074&ll=40.646519,-74.026074
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S204464912
- Comments: "Female. Semi-comfortable calling it Eurasian based on (a) earlier reports by birders more skilled than I and (b) proximity to female AMWIs allowing for a direct comparison. Head on this one wasn't just a little warmer, but a LOT warmer, almost rusty."

Below report : hemlock and battle aves intersection ,West side

Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) (1)
- Reported Dec 04, 2024 09:20 by Z .
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S204464257
- Comments: "Continuing. Poking out of its hidey hole, leaf blowers nearby, but came out to yell at a red bellied in the tree"

Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) (1)
- Reported Dec 04, 2024 09:20 by Z .
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S204464257
- Comments: "Seen briefly at the yew tree - gold/orange, dark wing with wingbars."

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"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby