Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City
Thursday, 18 August, 2016
After 6+ weeks of modestly-good to mediocre (or near-nonexistent)
general land-bird migrations, according to varying weather & other
factors, the night of August 17th into Thursday, 8/18 was by far the
strongest (land-bird) migrati
Hi everyone,
Dave Klauber and I failed to spot or hear the Sora at the ponds his evening,
but we had a brief but definitive look at a sprinting juvenile Virginia Rail,
all the way in the southeast corner of the little easternmost pond there.
Shorebird diversity was nice, half a dozen White-rump
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PIPING PLOVER
MARBLED GODWIT
COMMON EIDER
Amer. White Pe
At 12:42PM, a BROAD-WINGED HAWK with a full crop flew out of Van Cortlandt
Park and headed east across I-87. A stopover I suspect. Locals would know
better...
Mike Britt
Bayonne, NJ
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Sue and I spent a few hours this morning birding West End, concentrating on
shorebirds. Between the sandbar in the boat basin and the ponds between the
Nature Center and WE2 we recorded seventeen species of shorebirds with nothing
special to report. We did observe our first juvenile Stilt Sandpi
A belated report from the East Pond.
Yesterday, I did a schlep from the south to the north end of the east pond. My
hike began on a pleasant note, running into the legendary Arthur Morris who was
doing his photography thing.
There were a good number of peeps scattered all along the shores of th
Hey Peter,
I was so very disappointed to read Dave La Grange’s message and watch Dave his
video of him pursuing the Sandhill Crane. It was so obvious that as he
approached the crane, that the crane was walking away from him and even sounded
just before it took off. He writes: “...trying to c