Elis and I spent a couple of days in New York City. Our first motive for being there was to visit the skin collection at the American Natural History Museum.
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Museum entrance with statue of Teddy Roosevelt on a horse
flanked by two guides, one Native American and one African.
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It was a bit of an adventure travelling on the famous NY Subway, but it was overall a relatively pleasant and uneventful experience.
We stayed the night with our friend Don Hill who had been a client in Ubatuba on two occasions and has now become a firm friend, we were treated to a splendid dinner and much chat about the world in general.
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Elis and me with Don (green shirt) and some of his friends
from the US and Brazil
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Our second motive was to bird Central Park. The next morning saw us entering the park with high expectations.
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Full of expectation |
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View of Central Park |
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Getting to know the locals...
... and there was me thinking Elis wasn't looking! |
The birding was not as frenetic as we had hoped, despite the perfect weather conditions (wet and windy the previous day and night with a dry, calm, overcast morning), there was not the anticipated 'fall' of migrants. We were however treated to some good birds in small numbers.
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Common Grackle |
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Tufted Titmouse |
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Northern Cardinal |
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Black-crowned Night-Heron |
I think though that when people consider American migrants they almost instantly turn their thoughts to the warblers. We had a good selection with; Yellow, Black-throated Blue, Wilson's, Magnolia, Black-and-white, Yellow-rumped, Blackpoll, Blackburnian and Chesnut-sided with Northern Parula and American Redstart, plus Northern Waterthrush and Ovenbird.
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Yellow Warbler |
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Black-throated Blue Warbler (male) |
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Black-throated Blue Warbler (female) |
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Wilson's Warbler |
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Magnolia Warbler |
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Black-and-white Warbler |
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Yellow-rumped Warbler |
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Blackpoll Warbler |
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Chestnut-sided Warbler |
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American Redstart |
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Northern Waterthrush |
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Ovenbird |
We also had a Grey-cheeked Thrush, we tried to string it into a Bicknell's but not with much conviction.
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Grey-cheeked Thrush |
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