After a day or two of moist weather today strong sun and broke through with high winds and a humid feel. High puffy clouds sailed through the sky. I biked down Dyckman to Ft Washington Park and to check on the Red-Tail nest. It was my first time viewing the nest from below. It took some time to find. The views from the lower path are pretty good. A Red-Tail in the area performed in the wind and chirped. The flight style was spectacular. The raptor kited off the edge of Ft. Tryon and then stooped into the wind. The force of the wind lifted the raptor up into the air and it shot straight up into the air, missile shaped until they crested and dove and opened up their wings again. They performed the torpedo fall and rise like a stitching of thread and then sunk into the canopy. There was a lot of human activity on the bike path too. The fishing area was crowded and two men were drinking beers and gardening the thin strip of land between the fence and the Amtrak fence. I saw a man’s bare ass who was drying off after swimming in the river. I saw the riverside artist working diligently with sticks and trash, wearing a pink zip-up hoodie. I biked up to Dyckman Ball fields. The lot in front of the pier was packed with cars. I hung out at the top of the fields, only able to see Gulls and a solitary Canada floating against the wind. I continued around to check on the Screech Owls. On Screech was visible in the small side whole. There were several female RWBB in the soccer field. A dozen or so song sparrows ventured out of the Marsh Regeneration area to feed in the fields along with the two Swamp Sparrows. Up in Marble Hill I watched the male Peregrine perch on the north tower of Broadway Bridge for a while and then zoom around in the persistently gusty winds. Hundreds of European Starlings flocked and perched on the lower trusses of the bridge.
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