I stood around the Maintenance restroom area for more than two hours
yesterday (I just returned from Antarctica, so I guess the weather
seemed routine) and did not see the Varied Thrush. Nor had any of the
other birders who came by and had been looking for it. There was a
Cooper's Hawk hanging around that wizzed by me when I first got there at
10:35, and returned regularly. By the time I left, the hawk had been
posing comfortably at eye level for its portrait in the Maintenance
Meadow for at least 20 minutes. There were, however, other birds which
came into the area east of the restrooms when the hawk wasn't around,
including two Eastern Towhees, White-breasted Nuthatch, Tufted Titmouse,
Northern Flicker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker,
loads of Blue Jays and White-throated Sparrows.
As Jack Meyer suggested to me, I also checked across the transverse, but
didn't find the thrush there, either. This, of course, doesn't mean
it's gone, just that we didn't see it.
Ardith Bondi
On 12/14/10 8:15 PM, jacob drucker wrote:
Hi All,
For any interested in chasing the varied thrush, keep in mind that it is
does not seem to be in its "favorite patch" as regularly as before.
Several checks of the spot yesterday and the day before by myself and
others did not turn up the bird in the Maintenance Meadow vicinity.
Best,
Jacob Drucker
> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:19:02 -0500
> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park Varied Thrush
> From: pwp...@nyc.rr.com
> To: NYSbirds-L@cornell.edu
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>
> The Central Park Varied Thrush was still present this afternoon at its
> favorite location - by the east side of the men's rest room just north of
> the maintenance field.
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