Topping 60 degrees today, Pine Warbler has arrived in Prospect Park, Brooklyn (Kings Co.), and Eastern Bluebird added yet more color to that park - these species seen today by Brooklyn birders. ;-)
------------ Revisiting my Bryant Park (Manhattan) sparrow question - there are photos that unequivocally showed a Lincoln's Sparrow wintering in Bryant Park, midtown Manhattan- thanks to those who responded (off-list and on); I knew that other keen observers saw Lincoln’s, but I had not seen aII of their photos (now I have, and found another of my own that's just ok for ID) - so I'd seen the bird as weII, but not most recently or another time in Iate Feb - & now wonder if it has survived. - - - - - - - - - Thursday, 9 March, 2017 Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City A Red-headed Woodpecker continued just west of East 68th Street within Central Park, that sighting reported from Ken Chaya for this afternoon. Eastern Phoebes - harder to find for me today; locations today, Turtle Pond, near sw part of reservoir, and in the loch. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2, by west shore of lake. More blossoms on trees, shrubs, forbs - some Forsythia just beginning, but more important for those kinglets, gnatcatchers, warblers and other insectivores (when they come) are the many deciduous trees of multiple species now with ripe buds, and some now in flower. Insects of many species have been seen, by those seeking or not, and many are earlier than expected. Other avian species noted - 3/9/17: Pied-billed Grebe - 2 (reservoir) Double-crested Cormorant (various locations) Great Blue Heron (the Pond) Turkey Vulture (2) Canada Goose Wood Duck (the Pond, Meer) Gadwall American Black Duck Mallard Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail (drake , The Pond) Bufflehead (25, reservoir) Ruddy Duck Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel American Coot Ring-billed Gull [American] Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Yellow-shafted Flicker Blue Jay American Crow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren American Robin Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Eastern Towhee [red] Fox Sparrow - (1) Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow (fewer) Dark-eyed Junco (fewer) Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle (1,000-plus) Brown-headed Cowbird House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow --------- It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. [Mark Twain] good birding, and thanks to those respecting all wildlife and other park users. 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/ --
