We went on a Photography and birding trip. Tom led the group from the Linnaean Society of NY on April the 4th. About the trip: Better Bird Photography Workshop in Prospect Park – The Linnaean Society of New York. Here are a few of the birds that we saw.
A little charmer with a loud voice.
Carolina Wren Sounds, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Also posted on https://anotherglobaleater.wordpress.com/2023/04/18/whiskered-tern/ for bird of the week.
A photography trip to Prospect Park with the Linnaean Society of NY led by Tom Stephenson. I found this trip to be very informative an enjoyable.
More birds and nature from Prospect Park in April in the next 3 posts.
On December 4 and 5, 2015 I went to Prospect Park to see the vagrant Painted Bunting – a life bird. A painted bunting looks like something from a coloring book. There were at least 50 birders at a time surrounding the little bird, who didn’t care a fig about the people. It was very hard to photograph because of all the birders. I couldn’t get a good view and when I did someone invariably jostled me. I tried for two days and managed to get a few semi-usable shots on the second day. Three of the photos shown here are composites of two photographs created at the same location; “Painted Bunting in the Grasses” is a straight photo (not a composite). I know the Blue Jay isn’t a bunting; it’s my creative choice to include it in this series.
Environmental note: habitat restoration and management is crucial to our local birds not just to vagrants. There a lots of feral cats wandering the parks in NYC. Vagrant birds are not a good thing if global warming is the cause.
See The Famous Painted Bunting by Sherry Felix on The Linnaean Society of NY’s site. I am their webmistress and a council member.
