Manhattan, N.Y. City - Friday, January 3rd - An Iceland Gull was inadvertently left out of the compendium of sightings noted from yesterday, Jan. 2nd- found on the Central Park reservoir - S. Wallace, R. Zucker, the Iceland in adult winter plumage, and seen later in the day on the dividing dike of the reservoir, nearer the N. pumphouse building of the reservoir edge on, of course the north side.
A lingering but mobile Snow Goose was ongoing for Friday, while one late day observer had found it on the Great Lawn of Central Park very late on Thursday after having spent much of the day on the reservoir immediately to the north, and for Friday this Goose was mainly or wholly seen on the reservoir. It is clearly mobile and might show anywhere within reason in Central Park - never-ever yet at The Pond in the parks south end, where feral waterfowl will be found in addition to wild duckage there- and the Snow Goose is also still as-likely to make returning forays with its Canadian Goose friends to Randalls Island just east of Manhattan, as it has been on multiple occasions since this one birds discovery in the county. There are also some observations of this same Snow Goose from the Harlem meer in Central Parks northeast quadrant, as was so for a part of Friday morning, and on several other part-days of previous sightings. Near the Central Park Meer by the compost and plant nursery of that park, Chipping Sparrow is ongoing thru Friday. On the contrary we seem to have no new reports for an adult White-crowned Sparrow seen by many and photographed on Jan. 1 at Central Park, the latter also very possibly lingering near where first seen at the Ramble areas eastern edge, or perhaps across the road, the Parks East Drive in habitat that sparrows often can favor. The nearly 5-weeks lingering Dickcissel in fairly bright plumage has remained at Riverside Park, seen mostly at and not-far from the Drip area, with a small suet feeder in that area, just south of the Riverside tennis courts near about W. 119th St, inside the park and downslope to the west from Riverside Drive. A bit of patient searching and watching may reveal this bird which at times is quickly noticed by seekers, other times requiring longer vigils or short walkabouts in that area. Decent variety in ducks continues for Manhattan with so far Central Park having the highest diversity of native ducks in total, thanks in part to ongoing 3 species of mergansers still there at the reservoir thru Friday, Common, Red-breasted, and the more regular of the three, Hooded mergansers in nice numbers for the park. Checking thru all of the waterfowl, gulls, and sundry other birds at the Central Park reservoir as with any gatherings of water-birds, might reveal some uncommon or rarer species of bird. Of various January warblers on Manhattan, at the least an Orange-crowned Warbler was continuing at Carl Schurz Park, often right by the Gracie mansion southwest corner shrubberies and small bird feeder, this individual still present on Friday, 1-3. As may have been any of the other most-recent warblers this month in the county. Many more species of birds are of course still about, some long-lingering and some sure to overwinter, others only-potentially to give it a try as cold weather comes back in again. Thanks to many keen observers and photographers all-around for many sightings and reports. Good birding to all, Tom Fiore manhattan -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
