At 69th street

West 69th Street in the park is a great space at this time of year, dying leaves= bugs= hungry little birds. Peewee was shagging bugs. The yellow rumps were using the big tree with sapsucker drill holes.

My favorite kinglets were also having a successful bug hunt.

Handy dandy sapsucker

Getting into the park involves walking along Spook alley.

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Odd lot

One never knows what one is going to see.  Loved this..... a ball bird.  Search further. Ah, a pine warbler. That's more like it.

Black and white warbler on the hunt for food.

Posing for grub grackle

Found grub, too funny.

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Yummy

Catbird lunch

Cardinal salad

Blacky chestnut. You could hear the gnawing.

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Cardinals plus

Seen in September,  not exactly grown up cardinals.

Yummy! One less bug.

Poor leucic robin.

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Still around

Last hummer of the season?  Nice aerial ballet.

Looking for food cedar waxwing

Bloops sometimes turn into pleasant abstracts.

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Up-down Friday

Rainy Friday. When it rained I stayed upstairs. When the rain stopped I ran downstairs. Lots of bird activity in the garden. The robins are not our robins from summer. These are the northern robins stopping by for food and rest. Plump robins.  The white throated sparrows have also arrived eating seeds and nibbling on berries.

In the back garden the song sparrows are munching seeds.

And there was the female ruby kinglet, hell to photograph, mostly flitting high up in the leaves.

Kinglet also pecked at berries.

Male and female towhees working the leaves.  They were the biggest treat.

Today will also be a rainy up-down birding day.  This is called elevator birding.
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