The channel was being heavily used today by speedboats (illegally, natch) and I'd like to blame them for scaring away a lot of birds--though it seems that some birds like oystercatchers, gulls and the lone Great Egret I saw perched on a piling, are impervious to the disturbance of the motor craft and water skiers. Still, there weren't a lot of birds in the water waiting to get smashed.
30 species today--happy to see skimmers, oystercatchers, and plovers.
Mute Swan 2
Mallard 16
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 1
Semipalmated Plover 6
Killdeer 2
American Oystercatcher 5
Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2
Least Sandpiper 1
Laughing Gull 10
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 25
Least Tern 1
Forster's Tern 2
Black Skimmer 3
Mourning Dove 10
American Crow 5
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 11
American Robin 30
Gray Catbird 4
Northern Mockingbird 7
Brown Thrasher 2
European Starling 110
Yellow Warbler 1
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 3
Boat-tailed Grackle 1
House Sparrow 5
On the beach a new wreck has been added to the collection, hard up against the wreck that has been there for years and that now looks like its metal is crumbling into the ground--wouldn't want the spot to go unoccupied. Remember: This is a city park! Hey Bloomberg, how about throwing the Parks Department a few bucks so they can tow this crap out of there--you know they're always whining about lack of funds. Pretend for a minute that it's Central Park.
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| Glyphs from the indigenous people of the marsh |
SMART CAR WRECK
WEEK #9
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