Talk story about a gathering of bird-watchers at the Central Park Boathouse to honor the return of Officer Dennis Foley to patrol in Central Park.
The New Yorker, May 9, 1977 P. 33 Talk story about a gathering of bird-watchers at the Central Park Boathouse to honor the return of Officer Dennis Foley to patrol in Central Park.
Among these the first signs of breeding may be the assembly of birds on a gathering ground adjacent to the colony and the performance there of various strutting and dancing rituals.
With ruddy noses and watering eyes smarting from the morning cold, these people poked their faces through to see what they had come from Missouri, Illinois and as far away as New York to witness: the annual ascent of the sandhill cranes, the largest gathering of these birds in the world.
Take the first game of Tuesday afternoon's doubleheader, noteworthy to a casual gathering of early bird New Yorkers only because DePaul pulled away from Cincinnati, 67-57, to advance after a perfect Big East regular season, 0-18.
A group of New York City Audubon volunteers are gathering evidence of bird collisions this fall at a dozen buildings, including some of the city's most prominent structures, like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the World Financial Center and the Time Warner Center.
At dawn in the spring and fall, Lynne Parks walks through the streets downtown, gathering the bodies of birds.
Seeing and gathering the feathers of birds now presumably dead and in the process of being plucked filled me with confidence.
Best time to go: May through July to enjoy the midnight sun, to hike, sail and see a vast gathering of sea and bird life.
Among adults, the hunting of big game is confined to men, whereas the gathering of vegetable foods or small animals, birds' eggs, and so on are women's tasks.
