Thursday, 11 March 2010 - Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City An Eastern Phoebe was at the south side of the Great Hill this afternoon, well above the path north of the Pool, near W. 103 Street - well up in a tall bare tree, calling & at least a few times, also singing.
At Strawberry Fields late in the day, near W. 72 Street there was some bird activity including a Woodcock near the n. side of the lawn, with a fairly large mixed flock all around the area including American Robins, Common Grackles & a number of common overwintering species plus (uncommon, if overwintered there) Hermit Thrush, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, N. Flicker, one Fox Sparrow among the White-throateds, & a ruckus of Blue Jays. (cause of ruckus, not clear to me....) Other areas I was in today seemed to be less active... Some birds had seemingly moved on with waterfowl in particular in lower numbers than the day before. It didn't help that at the Meer some guy was rowing a small boat around the whole area... but the reservoir (boat-less) was also much less "ducky" other than modest gull numbers, again of the 3 usual winter species: Ring-billed, Herring, Great Black-backed... Good rain-birding, Tom Fiore, Manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
