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A gray catbird was hopping around under a few park benches. I didn't get to hear any of its vocalizations and I couldn't see the rusty patch under its tail, but it was fun to watch it mingling with similarly scavenging sparrows..

A gray catbird was hopping around under a few park benches. I didn’t get to hear any of its vocalizations and I couldn’t see the rusty patch under its tail, but it was fun to watch it mingling with similarly scavenging sparrows..

A guide was leading a nature tour by The Pond, perhaps headed for the nearby Hallett Nature Sanctuary, one of the park's hidden gems. Here he was identifying a dogwood tree.
This unusual piece of public art sits just outside Central Park, near the corner of Fifth Avenue and 60th St. It's by Paola Pivi, an Italian-born artist who now lives in Anchorage, Alaska, and it is a six-seat Piper Seneca airplane that has been modified so that it can rotate, end over end, while attached to upright braces by its wingtips. It was inspired by a story about three modern art pioneers, Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Duchamp and Fernand Leger, who were amazed by what they saw at the 1912 Paris Air Show. The motor-driven piece flips over and over is aptly called How I Roll.
 
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