My brother Jim is living in a nursing home overlooking the Hudson River a few miles north of Croton. I went to visit him yesterday and along the way I decided to stop at Croton Point Park to see if I could find the Barred Owl that has been hanging out there. On three previous visits I haven’t seen it.
I drove up to the owl’s favorite pine grove and check each tree. Nothing. A guy with a big lens walked up saying “ I saw it earlier today”. Together we checked the pine but no owl. A woman with an even larger lens appeared and look up. “There it is” she said. And it was. Sitting out in the open basking in the warm sun. Don’t know how we missed it. It was obvious once you knew where it was. A good view.
This has been a good birding week – a first ever Barnacle Goose, a Wilson’s Snipe, and now a Barred Owl. I’m exhausted but happy
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