A regionally-rare (extra-limital but not so far) Pacific Golden-Plover continued on at Sikorsky airport in Stratford, Connecticut, as of mid-afternoon Fri., 10/30, with updates being posted on the CT-Birds list-serve; thanks to all who were & are posting on that great discovery.
... Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - Friday, Oct. 30th: just a fairly quick note - on the Central Park reservoir in the a.m. were still at least some of the Lesser Scaup (in east-central sector, loafing with some Ruddy Ducks) and closer to n.e. shore, at least 3 American Wigeon- also a somewhat uncommon species for N.Y. County; not as uncommon as the preceding, a single Ring-necked Duck was also among the group of 5 L. Scaup, a Common Loon which had been present on Thurs., 10/29 was also again present there today, s. side as of late morning. Duckage also ongoing included Hooded Mergansers, N. Shovelers, Buffleheads, Gadwalls, Ruddy Ducks, Wood Ducks (in other C.P. waterbodies); and more-regular Mallards, Amer. Black Ducks, Canada Geese; with 2 Am. Coots & Pied-billed Grebe, plus a few D.-cr. Cormorants also lingering at the reservoir. Good mix of late-fall songbirds also about, as the rain was lightening to just a drizzle. At least one other C.P.-birder was also at the reservoir observing some or all of above concurrent to my a.m. visit there. No re-sighting (for Fri. a.m.) of an Eve. Grosbeak as had been seen (& reported as heard) on Thursday in mid-Central Park. Once again photos were obtained of above-noted ducks, etc. on Friday, 10/30. One dozen spp. of waterfowl in Central Park is not all too shabby. And it’s still October... keeping it real - stay safe out there - masked-up, and ‘distanced' appropriately, 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/ --
