Sunday, December 24, 2006

Red-headed Woodpecker and 2 corrections

Oops --holiday chaos created warbler chaos and I posted the wrong warbler in the report below. [I wrote Golden-crowned Warbler] It's now corrected.Thanks to several correspondents who sent in gentle reminders of the mistaken identity.

PS The woodpecker is correct., but I reported the wrong discoverer in my posting of 12/21. Lenore Swenson discovered the bird while scouting Riverside Park for the Christmas Count.


The Riverside Park Red-headed Woodpecker
Photo by Cal Vornberger
[Imagine that brownish head bright bright crimson and you'll have an idea of what this bird will look like next spring.]

The unusual woodpecker is still hanging around the same roost hole at 92nd Street and Riverside Park. And now another bird is putting Riverside Park on the map: a Cape May warbler has been seen for several days at 115th Street, near the park wall, feasting on sap that a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker has obligingly made available by drilling multiple holes in trees.