Friday, January 28th - Manhattan (in N.Y. City) Around Manhattan, at least a dozen Canvasback have arrived; fairly certain all or at least most are fresh arrivals in these waters, which include at least 3 (2 of which bright drakes) on the Central Park reservoir, all the 1st-of-the-season. Also ongoing at the C.P. reservoir are a Long-tailed Duck, Wood Duck, & as of first light-enough-to-see, at least 3 Iceland Gulls (all of the form ‘kumlieni’) and a possibility of other uncommon or rare gulls, with a further report of Lesser Black-backed there as well, & a lot of the regular-three gulls gathered-up to go through, for the larid-lovers (as usual, Ring-billed by far the most numerous, followed by [American] Herring, and Great Black-backed Gulls). A Snow Goose also has stayed on with the many Canada Geese of Central Park, and various other waterfowl are hanging in. Some movement has been seen along the Hudson river, & more follow-up at a later date. There are some additional signs of duck arrivals and we’ll see if yet more (numbers or ‘new’ species) show as the storm pushes on, and what’s around afterward, too. At a minimum, 18 species of waterfowl in (all of) N.Y. County for Friday, with a chance 1 or more additional sp. will have been found.
At least one of the 2 Western Tanagers was in its typical spot on Friday morn’, at Manhattan’s Carl Schurz Park at & near the feeder array just inside that park off East End Ave. and south of E. 86th St. (or, just west of the n.w. gate of the Catbird Playground, in same park). We will also be checking up on the Clinton / Hell’s Kitchen (in Manhattan) W. Tanager to see if it gets thru the storm, & with reasonable vigor intact. good and safe storm or post-storm birds, 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/ --
