Witches and pooches: NYC Easter parade – in pictures

Here’s licking at you: excited pooch matches their owner

Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters

Where did I leave my change? Woman looks inquisitively at angel flanking a silver St Peter

Photograph: Andrés Kudacki/AP

Work it, own it, sell it! Birds no longer trapped in the cage

Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters

‘You will show off your cookie to a crowd in New York City’: artist James Haggerty wears his fortune with pride

Photograph: Sarah Yenesel/EPA

A rhinestone cowboy

Photograph: Sarah Yenesel/EPA

‘In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you’ll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade’

Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters

Bears on heads

Photograph: Sarah Yenesel/EPA

A stroll down Sixth Avenue past Radio City Music Hall

Photograph: Kena Betancur/Getty Images

Cameras as far as the eye can see

Photograph: Kena Betancur/Getty Images

A garden of hats

Photograph: Sarah Yenesel/EPA

A love celebration

Photograph: Sarah Yenesel/EPA

A bonnet extravaganza

Photograph: Sarah Yenesel/EPA

A not-so-holy trinity

Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images

All the colours of the rainbow

Photograph: Andrés Kudacki/AP

The Easter parade turns Manhattan into cone-y island

Photograph: Andrés Kudacki/AP