Showing posts with label Anas penelope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anas penelope. Show all posts

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Bush Terminal Park

Tired of being kept indoors by the cold, I ventured out yesterday to look at this new Brooklyn park. It was pretty darned cold, about 25 F, and I didn't stay long. Click here for information about and directions to the park. Click here for a great place to have lunch while you are there. 
The park is surrounded by industrial waterfront buildings from an earlier age.  Click to enlarge the photos. 
In the park, a flock of cold-looking ring-billed gulls, Larus delawarensis, were standing on the ice. 
More cold-looking gulls hunkered down on the rocks. 
The rocks by the shore were icy. 
A few Canada geese, Branta canadensis, were walking through the dry grass. 
A pair of American wigeons (Anas penelope) swam by. The male is  on the left and the female on the right. 
A few rafts of bufflehead ducks (Bucephala albeola) swam offshore. 
One of the buffleheads caught an arthropod snack! 
Closer!