The Red-tailed Hawks of Washington Square Park, NYC… mostly
The Washington Square Park fledglings found their way back to the park and neighboring blocks after having spent the last week on buildings north and east of the park.
A fellow Hawk-watcher found one of the fledglings perching around the buildings lining the eastern side of the park. It then went into the southeast cluster of park trees.
I arrived in the park half an hour later and got to see some great action over the next 3 ½ hours.
On day four we woke up at our Cradle Mountain lodge. It was early morning and the fog was lifting from the pond on site:
Continue to the full post… “Day 4: Tasmania birding tour – Cradle Mountain, Strahan, Burnie”
11/21/12: I’m back in NYC and only now able to start going through my Tasmania tour photos to review, edit when necessary, and post on my blog! The tour was great.
Our delightful and knowledgeable leader Dion Hobcroft drove our small group around the whole island of Tasmania, taking us to specific areas where we could find particular birds (some of which are now on the threatened list so we were very lucky to see them). Dion, a lifelong ornithologist, also taught us much about the local towns, the various flora and fauna, and the history of the different regions as well so we were always learning something.
Birds were our main focus but we also got to see lots of other fabulous creatures like Echidnas, Wallabys, Platypuses, Red-bellied Pademelons, Wombats, Possums, Tiger Snakes, lizards, and Tasmanian Devils! I have photos of nearly all these animals to show in future posts but for now I’ll start with what we saw on day one.
We were lucky to see some Musk Lorikeets as soon as we stepped out of Hobart International Airport. Apparently, it’s one of the only areas in Tasmania where you can still see these birds:
Continue to the full post… “Day 1 of Tasmania birding tour: Hobart – November 14th, 2012”