Birds of Central Park Prints For Sale
You can now order prints from Cal Vornberger's "Birds of Central Park" as well as many other stunning examples of urban wildlife.
Visit the print site at calvorn.smugmug.com
City Says No to Ban on Cars in Park
Seems like a no-brainer to us. I guess that's wht we aren't running the park
New York Times
City Hall Resists a Proposal to Ban Cars on Some Roads in Central Park
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Published: July 11, 2011
It is a plan that seems tailor-made for the environmentally minded Bloomberg administration: Banish cars from the verdant, vertical roadways that slice top to bottom through Central Park.
Pedestrian advocates are agitating for it. Local residents favor it. The city’s transportation commissioner is said to be a fan.
Support the Wild Bird Fund
The dedicated staff and volunteers of the Wild Bird Fund are led by Rita McMahon and Karen Heidgerd. Rita is a television consultant who volunteers her time to help save local birds while Karen is the Practice Manager at Animal General. Both are licensed to rehabilitate wilds birds by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and have a Federal Migratory Bird Permit License issued by the Department of the Interior. They have the full support of the veterinarians on staff of Animal General as well as the full use of all medical facilities. Click here to visit the Wild Bird Fund Web site or to make a donation.
Continue reading to find out what to do if you find an injured bird.
Seaside Sparrow in Central Park
A Seaside Sparrow was discovered in the north end of Central Park near the Blockhouse on Thursday, April 28, by Tom Pearlman. Malcom Morris and Jim Demes helped ID the bird.
As the name implies, a Seaside Sparrow is more comfortable in salt marshes near water than in the north part of Central Park.
This may be a first ever sighting of this bird in the park.
Photo by Cal Vornberger. More photos a www.calvorn.com
Wood-Warblers
The following article was written by Mark A. Smith, an English Professor at Lock Haven University and appeared in their online newsletter, The Hemlock. Professor Smith kindly allowed us to reprint it here.
Wood-Warblers
--Mark A. Smith (LHU English Professor)
"How they filled the oriole’s elm, a twittering restless cloud, all one morning,
And I watched and watched till my eyes blurred from the bird shapes,
—Cape May , Blackburnian, Cerulean,—"
Theodore Roethke “The Far Field”
I suppose many non-birders know, in some nearly abstract way, that such things as warblers exist, but I doubt many have a good idea what one actually looks like, and I’ll wager most have never seen one in the wild and known it for what it was. That’s perfectly understandable, for reasons I’ll get to shortly, but it’s also sad because the warblers—or wood-warblers as they are more properly called—are simply some of the most beautiful, colorful birds you’ll ever get to see.
