The promised snow did arrive this morning, and it kept me out of Estabrook Park till 10:30am. Happily, not all the critters were done with their mornings by then, and I was able to see a few. Here are the ones I managed to capture on film:
A mature bald eagle over the far riverbank. They are not even considered “infrequent” on ebird, I noticed for the first time today, let alone “rare”, so let’s hope that’s really as good a thing as it sounds.
A male red-bellied woodpecker picking sumac seeds from a bunch over the pond.
A dark-eyed junco bathing in the stream that flows from the pond to the river. The air was just above freezing, after all.
One of the two goldeneye hens on the river below what’s left of the falls.
I see it’s supposed to be cold, cloudy, and windy tomorrow morning, so maybe that will entice a goldeneye drake to fly up from the lake for a visit. One can dream, right?
Signs of Life in Estabrook Park 