Lila Fried and I went down to bird Battery Park and the Staten Island Ferry and
found quite a few interesting odds and ends; the most unexpected of which are
asterisked:
Brant 4
American Black Duck 10
*Wild Turkey*--1 female preening in front of building towards the back of the
park.
Great Cormorant--3 on cinder block, closer to staten island
Double Crested Cormorant 20
*Black-crowned Night Heron*--juvenile being harassed by herring gull, flew into
oak and preened there.
Bonaparte's Gull--6, 5 adult, 1 first year, in large flock of ring-billed gulls
*Swamp Sparrow*--2 in some of the weedy areas in the SE part of the park.
In Central Park, we also had the VARIED THRUSH at about 1 pm, as well as an
immature RED-HEADED WOODPECKER first reported on ebirdsnyc by a Richard who
didn't post his last name. The Woodpecker was feeding on and cacheing acorns
the trees on the SE side of Sheeps Meadow. Reported by others, but not seen by
us was an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER west of Maintenance Meadow and 2 female
RING-NECKED DUCKS and 6 AMERICAN COOTS on the Reservoir, amongst the other
regular waterfowl.
Good Birding,
Jacob
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