Great to hear of the Bean Goose found in Saratoga County, NY; hope that further details will be posted (in part) to this list, along with any updates.
...... N.Y. County (in N.Y. City) including Manhattan and Randall’s Island Saturday & Sunday, March 13 & 14 - The Carl Schurz Park (Manhattan) Western Tanager (East End Ave., east into the park) continues & is again regular at feeder arrays, although may sometimes be found apart from those. Feeders are just inside the park, south of E. 86th St., & near the n.w. corner of the park’s Catbird playground. The Chelsea-neighborhood (W. 22nd-23rd Streets, mainly east of Tenth Ave.) W. Tanager may well be continuing also, in that area where it had been, for now. Lincoln’s Sparrow singletons were continuing on at both Bryant Park & in Central Park, at the latter by the compost area. American Woodcock also continued in both parks, and elsewhere. Sparrows of some (expected) species were showing increases, if still somewhat modest: Song, [Red] Fox, Swamp all up a bit (more) in numbers county-wide by Saturday, and Slate-colored Juncos by more than a bit. American Robins have also been increasing, and there was a sighting of a male Eastern Bluebird (L. Slote) in Central Park’s Ramble on the 12th, a day when others of the species were showing within the city. A few recently arrived Golden-crowned Kinglets were in disparate locations. Most observers have by now been seeing an increase of the blackbird spp. which are expected before the end of winter: Red-winged Blackbirds, Common Grackles & lower no’s. of Brown-headed Cowbirds. Those latter 3 spp. have also been turning up well north of N.Y. City of late as well. Small no’s. of vultures have been continuing to pass through, and this has included multiple sightings of Black Vulture, most often singly, occasionally more & so far just small no’s. of Turkey Vulture. Other diurnally migrating species have included Bald Eagle, N. Harrier, both of the smaller accipiters, & Merlin, with continuing near-abundance of Red-tailed Hawks around the county. Also fairly regular have been Common Raven, with both American & Fish Crows still moving about and some likely setting up in nesting territories, if not yet established. Drake Lesser Scaup was noted at Sherman Creek area of the Harlem River on Friday, 3/12; other waterfowl may be anticipated to pass thru (and overhead) or stop in to visit in the next few weeks. 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/ --
