A Bone-chilling Afternoon

             Fox Sparrow in Central Park -- photo by LLOYD SPITALNIK - 3/7/09

"We few, we happy few…", is how King Henry V began his speech to the English army in  Shakespeare's play. But when our brave reporter Pat Pollock quoted the King to describe her visit to The Ramble today, she obviously couldn't use the word "happy". It was too cold. Here's her report of Central Park's bird life on a day when the temperature went down to the low 20's:

2/26/15, Thursday

Pat Pollock:

We few, we very few showed up on this bone-chilling afternoon and very few birds also showed up:

Redpoll & Brown Thrasher

2 Fox Sparrows

beautiful Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (m)

Downy Woodpecker (m)

Lots of Grackles

perched Red-tailed Hawk

lots of Goldfinches

beautiful (m) House Finch

White-breasted Nuthatch

Black-capped Chickadee

Juncos