Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City Wednesday, 12 October, 2016 - A BLUE Grosbeak (of brownish coloration) was found by Joe Giunta's morning NYC Audubon (NYCAS) chapter bird-walk group, at the wildflower meadow in the park's north end, and subsequently seen by various other observers intermittently thru the day, with late sightings in the last hour of the day; most of the time rather skulking in the eastern end of the fenced-in meadow, which is very roughly near about 104th Street, & west of the park's East Drive. A very good variety of other migrants was found by the birding groups led by the above, & Gabriel Willow & others with NYCAS, as well as for the AMNH (American Museum of Natural History), in various parts of the park today. Thanks to all and in regards to helping to put word out, to David Barrett of Manhattan, who also was on-scene for the blue grosbeak.
"All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. ~ The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. ~ A land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his-her fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such." - Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), U.S. wildlife biologist, conservationist, professor, author, best known for his book "A Sand County Almanac" (1949), which has sold more than two million copies. - - - - good birding, Tom Fiore Manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
