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A Dark-eyed Junco fluffing up for warmth, the geese and ducks finding a section of the Lake that is not iced over and our beloved Bow Bridge, which has been in so many Hollywood movies!

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December 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
In Central Park today a Northern Cardinal, a Brown Creeper (doing what he does best), a Downy Woodpecker and a Red-tailed Hawk in the Ramble 🧡

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December 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
In the reservoir today was a Hooded Merganser, Mr. and Mrs. Bufflehead and a Ruddy Duck. I could swear it is the same pair of Buffleheads I saw a week ago and they sometimes do stay the entire winter season!

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December 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Astoria looks very happy at Battery Park. I think she enjoys her stay here more than she did Roosevelt Island. Next to her is Stella who chronicles Astoria’s adventures quite often. The third picture is of children enjoying Astoria’s company.
December 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
American Crow in silhouette at Van Cortlandt Park today!

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December 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
What a charmer 🧡 the Snow Goose at the Van Courtland Park Parade Ground!

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December 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The Snow Goose at Van Cortlandt Park is certainly a beautiful stand out. So nice to see this bird on Christmas Eve.

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December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A rather grouchy looking Northern Cardinal and some ring-billed gulls at Inwood Hill Park today. The “gray feathers on back, brown feathers on wings” bird is a first winter gull.

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December 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
A male and female Bufflehead, a Northern Shoveler and a pair of Hooded Mergansers on the reservoir today. Talk about sleeping with “one eye open.”

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December 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
A Ring-billed Gull on the Lake today and at the Evodia feeders the Dark-eyed Junco (a male and a female) and a Downy Woodpecker 🧡

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December 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A Ruddy Duck in the ressie and the Green-winged Teal in the Pool today🧡

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December 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
A short video of the RTH by Turtle Pond today 🧡
December 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’ve been hoping to spot a Red-tailed Hawk for the last few days now. This one was by Turtle Pond today ❤️

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December 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The diminutive, in size, but not in beauty, Green-winged Teal (well, three really), and a beautiful Northern Cardinal having a friendly stare down with me at the Pool and the Loch today ❤️

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December 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A Downy Woodpecker at the Evodia feeders, a Titmouse with his head fully inside a feeder and on unabashedly un-shy squirrel on a fence!

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December 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
This clever Red-bellied Woodpecker is "caching" his winter supply of acorns by moving them to smaller holes as they dry and shrink to keep them secure.

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December 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A Red-bellied Woodpecker in Riverside Park playing peekaboo and managing his winter pantry of acorns and nuts 🧡

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December 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The aptly named Yellow-throated Warbler was as busy as a beaver today in Carl Schurz Park 💛

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December 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This Red-bellied Woodpecker was going to town on the suet feeder in Carl Schurz Park today ❤️

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December 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
A Yellow-throated Warbler and a Nashville Warbler (both lifers for me) were stocking up on insects today at Carl Schurz Park 💛

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December 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
A Ring-billed Gull by Swindler’s Cove on the east side of Dykeman Avenue. The city has done a very good job of making a little respite for the birds with a marshy area and a children’s garden from a former illegal dumping ground in Harlem.

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December 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
A lovely Downy Woodpecker hanging out (literally) at Carl Schurz Park this Saturday afternoon 🩵

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December 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from Astoria the wild turkey and her birding friends 🧡

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November 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
A female Baltimore Oriole (so pretty), a House Finch and a Field Sparrow, all at the Great Hill Balancing Rock in Central Park!

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November 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
After birding for three or four years now, the Northern Shoveler still looks otherworldly to me…along with a Green-winged Teal and a squirrel at Central Park 💛

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November 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM