On Wed., 12/30/09, in the late afternoon, I was biking along the Hudson River north of the sewage treatment plant and south of the George Washington Bridge when I heard an unusual "caw." Looked up and, in a tree right by an elevated portion of the West Side Highway, saw a sizable stick nest that looked just like the Monk Parakeet nests I've seen in Edgewater, NJ. Returned today and saw two parakeets fly into the nest tree around 3:55 pm (they announced their arrival first). They took perches at about the same level not too far from each other and quietly hung out -- no vocalizations and very little movement -- until cold drove me away at 4:20 pm. The tree is just south of the 155th Street entrance to the bike path, which is officially called the Hudson River Greenway.
Rebekah Creshkoff New York City -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
