Manhattan, N.Y. City - Sunday, Jan. 31st - The Greater White-fronted Goose [form: flavirostris], first found back on December 20th at Randall’s Island, and more-recently favoring Central Park, almost always among many Canada Geese, had a slightly alternative site in Central for Sunday, putting in an appearance at the Great Lawn, which is not more than a few goose wing-beats up from the lake in the same park. A Common Loon continues on the C.P. reservoir, & modest numbers of gulls there seemed to consist of just the most-usual 3 spp. for the site.
A Western Tanager (female-plumaged) continued at Carl Schurz Park, seen at various times Sunday, and with a fair variety of other species at that location, which is off East End Ave. & with a main entrance at E. 86th St. A single Common Redpoll found on Sat., 1/30 may not have lingered to Sun. at Inwood Hill Park; that finch was admired by a number of observers while it was showing; all at Inwood thanked finder D. Aronov for the 1st sighting. We may be lucky to find some further finches as some species are still moving about in the region, & to the north & south as well. Some additional species showing in Manhattan - plus a few seen from shore but off in the adjacent waters: [Atlantic] Brant Wood Duck Gadwall American Black Duck Mallard Northern Shoveler Bufflehead Common Goldeneye (off Randall’s Island, a part of N.Y. County, although the goldeneyes perhaps in other countys' waters) Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser (on both rivers, & at the N.Y. harbor) Ruddy Duck Red-throated Loon (and, Common Loons are on river & harbor in addition to the 1 at Central Park) Great Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (continuing at Randall’s Island, L.H.G. salt-marsh) Bald Eagle Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk (presumably same wintering individual around Inwood) Red-tailed Hawk American Coot American Woodcock Ring-billed Gull [American] Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull ['feral'] Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon multi-owls Belted Kingfisher (Randall’s Island) Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Yellow-shafted Flicker Blue Jay Common Raven (several locations) American Crow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Winter Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Hermit Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling House Sparrow Cedar Waxwing Eastern Towhee Slate-colored Junco American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow (wintering) [Red] Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Rusty Blackbird (several) Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird House Finch American Goldfinch (of the above species, at least 60 were found in Central Park on Sunday, a fairly good tally for the time of year there.) good birds, and stay safe in the storm, 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/[email protected]/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/ --
