Comments on: #346: Fulvous Whistling-duck http://www.elharo.com/blog/birding/2006/06/04/346-fulvous-whistling-duck/ Ranting and Raving Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:22:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: verisimilidude http://www.elharo.com/blog/birding/2006/06/04/346-fulvous-whistling-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-9416 verisimilidude Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:38:17 +0000 http://www.elharo.com/blog/uncategorized/2006/06/04/346-fulvous-whistling-duck/#comment-9416 You may never find this, posting a reply almost two months later, but for what it's worth... Yes, It was Pale Male and family. I thought of falcons because they have taken up residence near me on the north side of Chicago on the top of a grand old movie palace, the Uptown Theatre. I thought you might be interested in an album of photos of them: http://www.wagnerone.com/wind/uptown You may never find this, posting a reply almost two months later, but for what it’s worth…

Yes, It was Pale Male and family. I thought of falcons because they have taken up residence near me on the north side of Chicago on the top of a grand old movie palace, the Uptown Theatre. I thought you might be interested in an album of photos of them:
http://www.wagnerone.com/wind/uptown

]]> By: Elliotte Rusty Harold http://www.elharo.com/blog/birding/2006/06/04/346-fulvous-whistling-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-5759 Elliotte Rusty Harold Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:22:29 +0000 http://www.elharo.com/blog/uncategorized/2006/06/04/346-fulvous-whistling-duck/#comment-5759 Yes, the benches are numbered; and the locations are quite well known in the local community. If I recall correctly there are 13 benches at various locations more or less encircling the pond. (It's a large pond by the way, maybe 100 acres.) As far as I know no falcons nest in Central Park, though Peregrine Falcons are regular visitors; and peregrines do nest aelsewhere in the city. You're probably thinking of Pale Male and family, a group of Red-tailed Hawks that nest just outside the park on Fifth Avenue. Yes, the benches are numbered; and the locations are quite well known in the local community. If I recall correctly there are 13 benches at various locations more or less encircling the pond. (It’s a large pond by the way, maybe 100 acres.)

As far as I know no falcons nest in Central Park, though Peregrine Falcons are regular visitors; and peregrines do nest aelsewhere in the city. You’re probably thinking of Pale Male and family, a group of Red-tailed Hawks that nest just outside the park on Fifth Avenue.

]]> By: verisimilidude http://www.elharo.com/blog/birding/2006/06/04/346-fulvous-whistling-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-5758 verisimilidude Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:11:48 +0000 http://www.elharo.com/blog/uncategorized/2006/06/04/346-fulvous-whistling-duck/#comment-5758 Places like Terrapin Trail and West Pond I can understand as park locations that I would find on a park map. What is "Bench 9"? Does the park label its benches for is this a location name known only to birders? I saw a Discovery Channel article on the falcons of Central Park but it was two or three years old. Are they still there? I'm sure they haven't been driven on by lack of food. Places like Terrapin Trail and West Pond I can understand as park locations that I would find on a park map. What is “Bench 9″? Does the park label its benches for is this a location name known only to birders?

I saw a Discovery Channel article on the falcons of Central Park but it was two or three years old. Are they still there? I’m sure they haven’t been driven on by lack of food.

]]>