Conan Birding Central Park

This is hilarious!

Butternut Squash Soup

For a gloomy Sunday, I made butternut squash soup for the first time. Butternut squash, sweet potato, onion, garlic, ginger, tumeric, nutmeg, cayenne pepper and coconut milk. Cooked in the slower cooker for 2 hours and then blended. It tasted delicious with focaccia bread!

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Saw this beautiful creature Wednesday evening at Montrose Point, the Magic Hedge no less!

I am so gorgeous!

American Kestrel

What a gorgeous bird! I sighted and properly identified a female American Kestrel this morning! Several Northern Flickers were pestering it to leave. The American Kestrel is our country's smallest falcon. Being able to identify a new bird is such a cool feeling. It's kind of like making a cool diagnosis in medicine, but even more cool because I haven't received any training in birding, everything I know is self-taught, and no sickness involved!

Alluring American Kestrel -copyright Audubon