New York County -in N.Y. City- including Manhattan, Randalls, Governors, and Roosevelt Islands and all adjacent waters as well as skies above - Sunday, March 16th -
Black-headed Gull came in again - but this time TWO individuals, one in near full alternate, ie. breeding-type plumage and the other in a less-fully-obvious stage lacking a black hood, both at the Central Park reservoir in Manhattan on Sunday, both perhaps birds which had -possibly- been visiting that reservoir over a period of at least several days, and perhaps more. Photos of these gulls are in the Macaulay Library archive via eBird reporting on Sunday. Again, a scope, and-or high-zoom-capable camera may be most useful, as well as patience in locating or nicely-viewing these gulls at this location. At least a few Eastern Phoebes, including one in the Central Park Ramble on Sunday, have been coming in and some may begin to linger. These and the following ardeid species are very recent or new arrivals for Sunday. A Great Egret appeared, possibly a first of the year individual, off Inwood Hill Park in northern Manhattan, where a molting American Wigeon also showed on Sunday. At the West Harlem piers park area a bit north of W. 125th Streets western terminus, the pair of Canvasbacks continued thru Sunday, again with many observers. American Woodcocks were ongoing with the most-viewed once again being those in Bryant Park in mid-Manhattan, which also has had overwintering Gray Catbirds and a modest number of other ongoing native non-feral bird species in addition to the usual urban trio of feral Rock Pigeon, House Sparrow, and Euro or Common Starling. Back in Central Park, two Green-winged Teal remained on The Pool northeast of West 100th St. where they have been for longer than all of this winter soon ending. A few Ospreys showed on Sunday over Manhattan, including passing by Central and also by Riverside Parks and perhaps going over other local parks of this county as well. Bald Eagles also have shown for a variety of locations of this county. Thanks to many quiet, courteous, keen observers and photographers for reports and updates, all via non-x bird alerts, and via eBird with the Macaulay Library for media. 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/ --
