Resident Black-crowned Night Heron in a tree over the water’s edge:
Slowly moving from branch to branch:
Female Mallard:
Separating the mud from the water:
Juvenile male Mallard:
Young Starlings:
The Black-crowned Night Heron inched closer to the branch’s tip and watched for a pond Redbreasted Sunfish (a fish I’d seen the Night Heron catch before):
Oh sure, nowyou show up!:
I had been looking up at the corner of The Plaza where the southeastern Red-tailed Hawk usually perches. I was standing at the 59th Street intersection by the park waiting for the light to change. I saw nothing until there was a flurry of wings and feathers as the Hawk appeared, flying off the building and over the park. I was only able to whip off a couple of decent photos of the bird before it disappeared over the tree tops.