I was lucky to find a nice spot where there were many migrants bathing in in the New York Botanical Gardens near the Twin Lakes.
When my flash batteries ran out yesterday at the point in Central Park where most of the birds are in shade, I realized how essential the flash is in getting the picture most of the time. And how I should carry extra batteries with me all the time even though I have a battery pack.
The leaves are almost all back as you can see from the intense green background creating more challenges while trying to capture these little guys/gals.
This past Tuesday, May 3rd, was an amazing birding day in New York City. I spent most of the day in Central Park. There were many migrating birds. This gave me many photo ops – most of which were too difficult to get the shot.
But I got enough to please me like this beautiful Hooded Warbler. It does not get much better than this!
Finally this Eastern Towhee decided to fly up to an eyelevel branch so that I could get a really nice picture. I have been seeing snippets of Eastern Towhees as they forage on the ground for a few weeks.