I have a cool application for my phone...called “Song Sleuth” that can identify birds.
If you hear a bird song, you can pull out your phone, launch the app, begin recording, and if you can get a second of two of the song, you can hit an “Identify” button.
Often, there is more than one choice, ranked by likelihood. It works really well, but the problem is, sometimes you just cannot get the phone out and recording before the bird flies away or stops singing. Ya gotta be quick!
When I first moved to this block, there were no trees, but shortly afterward the block association planted them. Now they are up to the third story of some buildings.
One street north of me the trees are over the rooftop height of the five-story brownstone houses. Beautiful street that kept the old-fashioned front staircases on three brownstone buildings. That part of the street is not next to the park, though, so they don’t get the birds like we do.