As reported, the Varied Thrush was seen today in the span of about five minutes in the northern part of Clove Lakes Park around 10:55 am this morning. It stayed up in trees while we saw it, moving perches a few times before it was lost flying to the south, losing height.
A Yellow-breasted Chat continues further south in the park as previously reported. At times it gave fairly good views moving actively through bushes and trees, feeding on remaining berries, before it disappeared into some low thickets and was not refound. At the southern lake in the park, a Cackling Goose was sleeping just minutes ago in with Canada Geese on the edge of the lake’s ice. It had its head tucked in most of the time, but it was easy to pick out by its smaller size and paleness relative to all the surrounding Canada Geese. A Winter Wren, Hermit Thrush, and Swamp Sparrow continue in the vicinity of the chat. Adrian Burke Manhattan On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 12:48 PM Thomas Fiore <tom...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Friday, 18 January, 2019 > > A Varied Thrush is confirmed lingering at & around the north section of > Clove Lakes Park in the northern part of Staten Island (Richmond County) in > N.Y. City; seen by multiple other birders on scene this a.m. - bird may be > in trees. Thanks to Seth Wollney & all others for reports; some of these > via eBird as well as to the local SINaturaList. > > apologies in advance if this happens to get a double-post; it’s a > rarity-sighting. > > good birding, > > 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ > > -- > > -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
