It’s well worth a note that the now long-staying Ferruginous Hawk has continued in the same area in Orange County, NY into Friday, 2/26. Still a truly stunning find by L. Scrima, and the more so for a bird so many have been able to see over the weeks of its occurrence at that location.
…... New York County (in N.Y. City) including Manhattan, Randall’s & Governors Islands On Friday 2/26, I went looking for a Cackling Goose reported at Inwood Hill Park’s lagoon area in Manhattan, but arriving fairly late there, I found only modest no’s. of 'standard sized' Canada Geese, and the same for my effort at the Dyckman Street marina & adjacent ballfields. The Carl Schurz Park (Manhattan) female Western Tanager was again present on Friday, 2/26, & it can be presumed that the Chelsea-neighborhood W. Tanager (also a female) also has continued on for now, in the vicinity of W. 22-23rd Streets, near Tenth Avenue. Modest numbers of American Woodcock have been seen in a number of locations, including in Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan. Killdeer as well, and at least a few came in at Central Park, Inwood Hill Park, along with other locations by Friday, or some, earlier. (Incidentally, Killdeer are, & long have been, an annual migrant in, through, & over Central Park & can & do simply pass through with less obs. notice than might be thought by some.) On Governor’s Island (closed to public access for the time being), some arrivals on 2/25 (among nearly two dozen species recorded by C. Weiner) included drake Wood Duck (unusual there), drake American Wigeon, & 2 Killdeer, all photographed. More Killdeer & some Am. Wigeon were found the same day at Randall’s Island, and on Friday, the long-staying survivor adult Yellow-crowned Night-Heron was yet again found & photo’d, at the Little Hell Gate salt marsh, its most-usual haunt. Also arriving or passing by in numbers have been Double-crested Cormorants, with some Great Cormorants continuing in some locations, and Red-throated Loons have been moving a little over the past week - in particular, as seen along the Hudson river. 2 Black Vultures were seen & photo’d flying over Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan on Thursday. Turkey Vultures have been moving over in low numbers in the county. There have been a good many waterfowl on the move & not just locally, in the past few days alone with the wind shift, and milder weather. We also have seen modest passages of Red-winged Blackbirds, & surely some other species have been moving about a bit, whether rather locally or on longer-distance shifts northward. Thanks to many for sightings & reports - there have been hundreds of birders out with the little ‘taste of spring’ in the air. good birding to all, 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/ --
