Manhattan, N.Y. City - Wed.-Friday, Jan. 20-21-22nd: A Western Tanager continued at & near Carl Schurz Park into Thursday, seen both on East End Ave. (in street tree, near E. 87th) as well as within the adjacent park. There was some noisy tree-pruning in progress for a time in that park, possibly affecting a few species whereabouts there, on Thursday. (An early look for an Or.-cr. Warbler that’s been regular there mostly around Gracie mansion’s grounds was not successful, but that warbler may well be lingering, and just possibly, some others that were seen earlier this month, around the county.)
A Greater White-fronted Goose (of the Greenland-breeding form) has continued; I photographed this goose on the C.P. Reservoir at the pre-sunrise hour of 7:10-7:20 am on Friday 1/22 (among fair numbers of Canada Geese), while the day before, 1/21 the Greater White-fronted chose the Lake (in Central Park) & mostly near Bow Bridge for Thursday’s showing, along with hundreds of the Canada Geese it moves about with. Two female Lesser Scaup were also noted by many on 1/21, and overall the reservoir continued with the larger variety of waterfowl & coots, numbers of the regular gulls, & several spp. of raptors in that vicinity. A drake Wood Duck has lingered at the north end of Central Park, lately sometimes favoring the Pool. An adult Iceland Gull was reported from Battery Park (T. Olson) on 1/21, although perhaps not lingering (and the noted plumage would make it at least the 3rd individual of that species to be found in Manhattan this month; 2 others seen at Central Park were in differeing age-plumages, neither an adult.) Overall in N.Y. County in this week alone, more than 80 species of birds were still being seen, a fairly high number this far into winter, thanks in particular to waterbird diversity, and to many lingering birds. Some of those were - Greater White-fronted Goose, Canada Goose, [Atlantic] Brant, Wood Duck, Gadwall, American Black Duck, Mallard, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail (Swindler Cove Park, Sherman Creek area), Green-winged Teal, Ring-necked Duck,Greater Scaup, Lesser Scaup, Bufflehead, Common Goldeneye (east off Randall’s Island), Hooded Merganser, Common Merganser, Red-breasted Merganser, Ruddy Duck (at both C.P. as well as the East River), Red-throated Loon, Common Loon (small numbers of both loon species), Great Cormorant, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Black Vulture, Turkey Vulture, Bald Eagle, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cooper's Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk (in several locations, most-regularly seen at Inwood Hill Park recently), Red-tailed Hawk, American Coot, Ring-billed Gull, [American] Herring Gull, Iceland Gull (multiple sightings from the C.P. reservoir), Great Black-backed Gull, ['feral'] Rock Pigeon, Mourning Dove, American Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, multi-owls, Belted Kingfisher, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Yellow-shafted Flicker, Blue Jay, Common Raven (multiple sightings & locations), American Crow, Black-capped Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, Red-breasted Nuthatch (few), White-breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, Carolina Wren, Winter Wren (at least several locations / parks), Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Hermit Thrush, American Robin, Gray Catbird, Northern Mockingbird, Brown Thrasher (multiple locations, skulkers), European Starling, House Sparrow, Cedar Waxwing, WESTERN Tanager, Northern Cardinal, Eastern Towhee, Slate-colored Junco, American Tree Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow (several locations), [Red] Fox Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Red-winged Blackbird, Rusty Blackbird, Common Grackle, Brown-headed Cowbird, House Finch, American Goldfinch, & likely at least a few additional species. good birding to all, 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/ --
