I saw other winter birds at Pelham Bay Park : NYC Parks besides these two that I did not photograph.
Pelham Buffle and Tufty
Pelham Bay Park
Pelham Landscapes
On a trip to Pelham Bay Park : NYC Parks I made these photographs. One more post to come.
Pelham Bay 3 of 3
The water was like glass mirror in the cove at Pelham Bay Park that day. The large boulders are glacial erratics.
Pelham Bay 3 of 3
The water was like glass mirror in the cove at Pelham Bay Park that day. The large bolders are glacial erratics.
Pelham Bay 2 of 3
You will notice that I added different lighting and skies in all of these.
Pelham Bay 1 of 3
Marc and I went to Pelham Bay Park : NYC Parks in March. I like to make landscape photographs of the rocks and water. The colors were blue sky, yellow grass, and gray rocks. I added assorted skies and coloring.
The shoreline in Pelham Bay Park is crystalline basement rock of the Hartland Formation and part of Cameron’s Line. The park also has a variety of glacial materials and features.
The park encompasses 2,764 acres of coastal lowland. The Hunter Island Marine Zoology and Geology Sanctuary is on the north side of the Orchard Beach bathing area, and includes the northeastern shoreline of Hunter Island, and all of Twin Islands, Two Trees Island, and Cat Briar Island.
The Hartland Formation consists of granitic and garnetiferous amphibolite gneiss with many quartz veins and Migmatite dikes. Migmatite is an igneous rock that forms when metamorphic rocks begin to melt under high temperature. Felsic minerals melt and are injected into the surrounding rock along joints and faults in the rock. As the igneous material cools, bands of feldspar and quartz crystals form along the edges of the intrusion. The center of the migmatite veins contain larger crystals of feldspar and quartz. Migmatite stands out in outcrops as light-colored bands in the darker amphibolite gneiss host rock. Some dikes cut across older dikes and quartz-filled veins; many are folded or are offset by faulting. Overlying the bedrock is glacial till and numerous erratics.
Source: Geology of the New York City Region.
Also see Pelham Bay Park history
Pelham Bay Park
We hiked for a couple of miles on Hunter Island in Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, New York. It’s a nice place to take a walk. These were shot with our Samsung Galaxy phones.
Pelham in Winter
We took a walk in Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, New York on February 16, 2022. I replaced the skies in most of these.
I love the folded and layered metamorphic Fordham Gneiss, which is part of the Hartland Formation that forms the bedrock beneath the Bronx east of Cameron’s Line. The rock consists of granitic and garnetiferous amphibolite gneiss with numerous light-colored quartz veins and migmatite dikes. Migmatite is a type of igneous rock that forms when metamorphic processes begin to melt the rock under high temperature. Felsic minerals melt and are injected into joints, faults, and other zones of weakness in the rock. As it gradually cools, bands of feldspar and quartz crystals form along the edges of the intrusion. The center of the migmatite veins typically consist of larger crystals of feldspar and quartz. In some cases, the dikes cut across older dikes and quartz-filled veins; many are folded, or display offset by faulting. Overlying the bedrock is a blanket of glacial till. The beach is littered with large erratics derived from bedrock sources nearby. (Source: NYC Regional Geology (geologycafe.com))
After walking to the end of Hunter Island we drove to City Island for a meal at the Lobster House.
