YAS BIRD

This injured hawk was rescued and released into Central Park thanks to our Rangers. If you see injured wildlife, keep clear and call @nyc311 pic.twitter.com/6asF6a3nLQ

— NYC Parks (@NYCParks) November 16, 2016

sorry but LOL

UPDATE: Thirteen injured in tour bus accident near Central Park https://t.co/jfUmfJdU1m pic.twitter.com/wI0dX1a3zb

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 21, 2016

g-d damn.

plz welcome... the next overscaled monstrosity to blot out the sun over central park. one of seven new supertall towers inching toward fruition along 57th street. UGH.

BREAKING BEARS NEWS ALERT!!!11

ATTENTION ATTENTION!

central park's got some new BAAYYUUURRRRRZZZZZZZZ!!

2PzNaPpod: you heard it here second third.

welcome to the family, betty and veronica

meet betty and veronica, 2 new grizzly bears in the central park zoo. evidently one is more blonde and the other brunette, but i'm sure she's just dyeing it to meet with manhattan's high standards of beauty.

gimme a park with BEARS big beautiful BEARS

shining, streaming, gleaming, flaxen, waxen...

here are Veronica (L) and Betty (R) the new Central Park Zoo BEARS!

something TERRIBLE happened in central park this morning

a dog walker found the dead body of a baby black bear on the west side near 69th street. no one yet knows how it died, or how it got to central park. foul play! someone call J.B. Fletcher! dead bears can't tell secrets! nytimes

central park zoo has some new baby big kittens

The Wildlife Conservation Society has some good news: The snow leopard cubs above are the first snow leopard cubs ever born in the NYC Central Park Zoo. The brother and sister, which were born earlier this summer but kept away from prying eyes, now weigh about 30 pounds, but are expected to reach between 65-120 pounds. Their parents are Zoe, the mother (7), and Askai (6), a male sent to the Central Park Zoo from the Bronx Zoo. Both adults are first-time parents. LETS GO VISIT IVE NEVER BEEN TO THE CENTRAL PARK ZOO MS DANGLES IS GOING TO TAKE ME.

this bear is dead

gus used to be a depressed polar bear in the central park zoo. these days, he is fertilizer. he was depressed after his bear friend Ida died a few years ago.

FISHZILLA.

The Harlem Meer, in the northeastern corner of Central Park, has long been a refuge for city people looking to indulge their inner Huck Finns, whiling away a lazy summer afternoon fishing for bass, yellow perch and black crappies.

But late last week, signs started popping up around the lake notifying anglers of the arrival of an intruder. The dreaded northern snakehead, a fierce predator common in the rivers and lakes of Asia but considered an invasive species in American waters, had been spotted.

The warning to anglers was clear: If you catch this fish, do not release it. Contact the authorities immediately. It does not belong and could radically alter the local fish population.

The snakehead is a relentless and efficient predator that devours just about everything in its path — fish, frogs, crayfish, beetles and aquatic insects. And it does not meet death easily; it is able to survive under ice or live on land for days in damp conditions. It has been called Fishzilla. (via)

what happens to the zoo animals when it snows?

well the bronx zoo and the central park zoo are already shut down in anticipation of the approaching blizzard. but the bears like it! via

that's what you get.

this is what happens when a black eyed peas / taylor swift concert in central park gets cancelled due to weather, and 60,000 people bought tickets.

i'll just say it: those people got what they deserved.

here's that story...

...i started to tell you about in the comments down there.

A 46-year-old man was killed in Central Park when a snow-sodden tree limb fell on him just before 3:30 p.m. Thursday, the authorities said.
 
The man, Elmaz Qyra of Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, was declared dead at the location, a tree-canopied stretch along Literary Walk on the east side of the park near 69th Street, after crews from the Fire Department arrived at the spot.

A witness who walked by as Mr. Qyra lay bleeding said that the branch, which came to rest beside his head, looked like it must have weighed 100 pounds. The American elm tree it fell from, the witness said, was massive, perhaps 80 feet high, and was bowed beneath the weight of several inches of wet snow.

“It was obviously a direct hit to his head,” said the witness, a man who lives on the Upper West Side but would not give his name. “There was this big pool of blood spreading through the snow. It was horrifying.” (via)

bout died...

...when these little guys showed up on my tv this morning. skip to 0:50.



they look healthy to me!

RACCOONS AND RABIES: New York City plans to vaccinate raccoons against rabies. Since December there have been almost 40 cases of rabies among raccoons in Central Park and upper Manhattan. Now the Health Department says that for the next couple months wildlife experts will humanely trap the raccoons, tag them, vaccinate them and then release them in the same location. (via)

joey, tell your raccoon story!

central park coyote, redux

this is he. skinny little guy.

central park coyote

the central park coyote is the new subway chicken on 6.

central park

i forgot to tell you all that i went to central park on saturday. these are the two pictures i took.

these three bears are a statue dedicated to bears

this castle.