Tuesday, Feb. 2nd - Central Park, Manhattan (N.Y. City) Quite a day, with 8 species of gulls documented on and sometimes over the Central Park reservoir, as noted and pointed out by a great diversity of birders who included locals and regulars as well as many coming in particularly for the rarest of those gulls, the Slaty-backed. In addition, the gull show featured a Black-headed Gull, at least 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, at least 2 Iceland Gulls, and Glaucous Gull, along with masses of Ring-billed (numbering nearly or more than 1,000 at times) as well as many [American] Herring & modest numbers of Great Black-backed Gulls. All involved in finding - spotting - identifying - re-finding and tracking these, & particularly the genuinely-rare Slaty-backed, are thanked. Even with the haranguing by an adult Bald Eagle, as well as some noisy fly-over activities by NYPD (police) helicopters in the area at one point, many of the gulls came back to sit on the reservoir’s ice shelves. Notes on other birds wait wait to another day. Good birding to all, Tom Fiore manhattan
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