Thursday, 4 October, 2012 -
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City
Some morning movement, as well as a lot of apparent southbound exodus of the
night preceding. Seen moving in numbers in the first hour of the day were many
Yellow-shafted Flickers, Blue Jays, Cedar Waxwings, Common Grackles, and
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Thanks, Will, those are helpful.
>From the additional photos I see a dirty back of the neck that is very
>suggestive of Slaty-back, as well as a sense of the smaller size and maybe
>lighter back. But, the bill shape, the extent of the white edging of the
>tertials and scapulars, and the leg co
I've coped the other 3 photographs that were taken by John Hershey and posted
on HM Birds.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danikabelle/8055096162/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danikabelle/8055096343/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danikabelle/8055096603/in/photostream
Echoing the points made by Kevin, I assume we are discussing the
subadult bird on the right?
My immediate impression is of a Great Black-backed Gull (charcoal
rather than bluish tone of mantle, rather flat head shape, square
proportions of body, limited white tertial crescent, dull leg color
etc)
Thanks, Will, for doing that.
Are there notes and comments from observers? Also, do more photos exist?
Impressions of leg color would be most helpful.
Identifying a bird from a single photograph is perilous, but here are my
impressions.
At first glance Slaty-backed Gull seems a reasonable su
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danikabelle/8054880897/in/photostream
I copied the photo to flickr. The photo was taken by John Hershey.
Will Raup
Albany, NY
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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 17:32:54 -0400
Subject: Re: Update RE: [ebirdsnyc] Fwd: [nysbirds-l] Poss SLATY-BACKED GUL
I believe you have to be a member of the HM Birds yahoo group to view the
pictures.
Cheers,
Andy Guthrie
Hamlin, NY
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Richard Guthrie wrote:
> OK - sorry folks.
>
> Apparently the URL for the gull pictures was way too long to easily access.
>
> Here is a re-do of i
OK - sorry folks.
Apparently the URL for the gull pictures was way too long to easily access.
Here is a re-do of it in "Tiny URL":
http://tinyurl.com/8jvuspo
Try that. I did and it works.
Have fun.
Rich Guthrie
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This link is not working for me.
Shane Blodgett
Brooklyn NY
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On Oct 4, 2012, at 5:05 PM, "Richard Guthrie" wrote:
> Review of photos lead some to believe the bird in question was actually a
> 3rd yr. Great Black-backed Gull. The observers state that there appeared to
> be a
Review of photos lead some to believe the bird in question was actually a
3rd yr. Great Black-backed Gull. The observers state that there appeared to
be a noticeable and distinctive size difference. The bird was said to be
comparable to Herring Gull in size. There are no pictures of the bird in
fli
Blackpoll Warbler continues in S border garden to Gt Lawn, Lincoln's Sp. on S
edge of Gt Lawn plus Tennessee Warbler on Gt Lawn and in trees on N edge & E
edge of lawn.
Composed in the field on an iPhone 3Gs.
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We had a nice assortment of sightings this morning on my NYC Audubon Bryant
Park walk (in spite of the park having ripped out much of its shrubbery and
other vegetation).
We were joined by Clay Taylor from Swarovski Optik toting their latest and
greatest ATX modular spotted scope. Wow. If you
Bill Lee, and his Thursday group, has what they believe to be a SLATY-BACKED
GULL (an Asian species - which has been recorded a few times in New York
State) on the dam at Cohoes/Waterford.
Latest word at 10:55 AM Oct. 4th is that it has just left, flying north up
the Mohawk River in the directi
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