I neglected to add into the good list of species seen flying through at Central Park, Manhattan (N.Y. City) on Tuesday, 9 November 2010:
Snow Bunting (30+ fly-bys - quite rarely seen nowadays in or even from the park, although perhaps more regular as fly-overs than realized, and formerly much more regular. I have not seen these landed in the park in many years - last flock noted by multiple observers was during the original hawk-watch at the park in the mid-1990's, a sizable flock came in on the Great Lawn, nicely eroded and in "good shape" for such species at that time, nowadays much too manicured and also more heavily used, such that avian visitors like snow buntings, horned larks and meadowlarks, etc. usually don't stop or if they do, rarely linger at all. The snow bunting flock on Tuesday was not landing and likely continued onward, time was about 1 hour after sunrise and were viewed from next to Belvedere Castle looking up.) Tom Fiore, Manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
