The Painted Bunting originally found by Maya Shikman & friends on Staten Island on 1/13, at & near the (SE) foot of Arden Avenue (& which, from some photos, may be a female or a young male) was seen through this Sunday afternoon (1/15), by others in the same area as the prior sightings (in Richmond County, NY, a borough of New York City).
---------------- Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City Sunday, 15 January, 2017 A first-winter-plumaged Red-headed Woodpecker [p*] continues today in the vicinity of (a path just west of) Fifth Avenue near East 68th Street, often a bit north of the rustic pavillion on the rock outcrop at The Dene (officiaI name of this area in Central) - this bird, which has no 'obvious' red yet in its head feathering, & has some wavy black stripes thru each of its white wing patches, has been seen by scores if not hundreds of birders, thru the past week, at this location. Among the at-least 62 additional species of native/wild birds seen in the past week in Central Park have been these, many -if not all- ongoing in various locations: Pied-billed Grebe [p] Double-crested Cormorant [p] Great Blue Heron [p] Turkey Vulture (few & lyovers only) Canada Goose [p] Wood Duck [p] Gadwall [p] American Black Duck [p] Mallard [p] Northern Shoveler [p] Northern Pintail [p] Green-winged Teal' [p] ['American] Bufflehead [p] Hooded Merganser [p] Ruddy Duck [p] Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk [p] Red-tailed Hawk [p] American Kestrel [p] Peregrine Falcon [p] American Coot [p] Ring-billed Gull [p] [American] Herring Gull [p] Great Black-backed Gull [p] Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove [p] Belted Kingfisher [p] Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker [p] Downy Woodpecker Northern Hairy Woodpecker [p] Yellow-shafted Flicker [p] Blue Jay [p] Common Raven [p] American Crow [p] Black-capped Chickadee [p] Tufted Titmouse [p] Red-breasted Nuthatch [Eastern] White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper [p] Carolina Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet [p] Hermit Thrush [p] American Robin [p] Gray Catbird [p] Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher [p] European Starling Cedar Waxwing [p] Eastern Towhee [p] [Red] Fox Sparrow [p] Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow [p] White-throated Sparrow [p] Slate-colored Junco [p] Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird [p] Common Grackle [p] Brown-headed Cowbird [p] House Finch [p] American Goldfinch [p] House Sparrow *A [p] indicates the species was observed & also photographed during this week in Central Park. --- All who wish to support fact-based journalism over the coming weeks, months and years may want to take out a paid subscription to your newspaper or magazine of choice - real support to actual news- gathering and working-reporter organizations: they will need that support now more than ever - well-informed citizens make good citizens, and help to build stronger democracies. - - - - - “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” - “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” - “I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits.” - - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [lived January 15, 1929 - April 04, 1968, reaching 39 years of age.] - - - - "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." - Aug 3, 1857: Frederick Douglass, great American thinker, writer, orator, abolitionist [1817 - 1895] "They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds." - 2016 (and quoted in popular modern use) - in part - DeRay Mckesson, young American activist & writer "Quisieron enterrarnos, pero se les olvido que somos semillas." (los Zapatistas, Mexico, 1990's) "What you didn't do to bury me ~ but you forgot that I was a seed." - Dinos Christianopoulos, poet (Greece,1970's) good birding; and thanks to those quietly observing, Tom Fiore manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
