I saw a very large falcon late this afternoon in Fort Tilden. It looked
identical to the dark adult Gyrfalcon in Sibley's, and after watching it
for nearly five minutes I id'ed it as a Gyrfalcon and entered it into
ebird. I also had some great views of more common birds, like long tail
ducks, commo
Six tree swallows were observed late this morning at Black Rock Park,
Croton-on-Hudson, Westchester County.
Observed for 30+ minutes swooping over same small area of the Croton River.
Perhaps getting an early aquatic insect hatch of some sort? Seems rather
early for that (and the swallows.)
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Wednesday, 26 February, 2014 - Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City
I looked for the Pine Warbler seen yesterday in the Ramble of Central
Park, at about the same time & with similar conditions (light snow
flurries ending, brisk but bright & sunny), but did not find it again
this mid-day. And
Many many thanks to all of you who replied to my hawk ID query.
I received a very large number of responses, only some of which appear
to have gone out to the entire lists, unfortunately.
What I discovered was that a number of other people have seen
individuals like this in our area, not too
