Overcast and still in Central Park this morning, which enabled me to capture this Great Egret (and its reflection) on the Reservoir! I never tire of photographing these elegant herons!❤️❤️❤️#birdcpp #BirdTwitter

RT @kimahesse: Whoa! 👏.

RT @Above96th: 👀👀👀Look at the feet on this Black-crowned Night Heron! Spotted snoozing on the banks of the Harlem Meer. 😅😅😅 #Herons #Centra….

RT @jzell2285: Another great sighting in NYC!!!.

RT @Vanessa01336830: He is beautiful.

👀👀👀Look at the feet on this Black-crowned Night Heron! Spotted snoozing on the banks of the Harlem Meer. 😅😅😅 #Herons #CentralPark #birdcpp

RT @Above96th: Spotted a Northern Waterthrush plying the shallows of Central Park's Pool early this morning. Though it looks like a thrush,….

Here's the migration map of the Northern Waterthrush. Can you believe these little birds fly so far?

Spotted a Northern Waterthrush plying the shallows of Central Park's Pool early this morning. Though it looks like a thrush, this is a warbler. It breeds in Canada and stopped in NYC on its return trip to Central/South America! (Map below.) 🥰🥰🥰 #Warbler #CentralPark #birdcpp

RT @Above96th: Back in my beloved Central Park this morning and was happy to see several Monarch butterflies, including this beauty feastin….

RT @ThisLandMedia: Welcome home :)! Astoria is still in Battery Park City :)!!.

Back in my beloved Central Park this morning and was happy to see several Monarch butterflies, including this beauty feasting on milkweed in @CentralParkNYC's Conservatory Garden! 😍😍😍 #Monarch #CentralPark #birdcpp

Say what you want, but Magpies in flight are spectacular! 🥰🥰🥰 #magpie #paris #birding

Here's a shot of the aerial battle between the hawk and the magpie. Both seemed to want ownership of the same tree! 2/2

Witnessed an epic battle between a Sparrowhawk and a Magpie in the Parc des Buttes Chaumont yesterday. In the first pic, the hawk is screeching at the magpie as it defends its fledgling. 😡😡😡#Sparrowhawk #Paris #birding 🧵1/2

We stopped in Paris for a few days before coming home, and I did a little birding one morning in Le Jardin des Plantes. I was happy to spot this Rose-ringed Parakeet! (Memo to self: Always stop in Paris.) 🥰🥰🥰 #Parakeet #Paris #birding

Yesterday, I mentioned stumbling (almost literally) on a family of Sparrowhawks in Vienna's Leopold Park (site of the Ferris wheel in The Third Man). Here's one of the fledglings, which was startled to see a huge grasshopper when it hopped onto a tree. 😂😂😂 #Sparrowhawk #Vienna

I didn’t do much birding in Vienna, but I did happen on a family of Sparrowhawks one morning. Papa was keeping a close eye on two fledglings as they dined on a recent catch. The female can be twice the size of the male! #sparrowhawk #Vienna #birding

I spotted a Eurasian Moorhen at first light outside Ljubljana. Don't you love that spectacular beak? ❤️💛❤️ #Moorhen #Ljubljana #Slovenia #birding

You can just see a nestling poking its head out from the nest on the right.

We saw dozens of Western House Martins flitting about the farm we're staying on in the Slovenian Alps. I realized they all were madly feeding their nestlings, who were in mud nests built throughout the barn. Here's one parent heading out for more. #Martins #Slovenia