Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - 16 March, 2014 An after-noon pass thru the park offered a chance to check the reservoir again, and this time the Red-necked Grebe was seen, diving quite regularly - and still doing so when last seen watched at about 2:45 by which time it had moved well towards the center (a little west of the dike) & thus quite difficult to spot easily. I saw that it appears to be same individual as previous days. (a chance of a newly- arrived indiv. also struck me as I saw the cross-posted report A.P. sent, and it seems reasonable - unlike most years - that this could yet happen; there've now been 2 clearly-different Red-necked Grebes this month in Central Park, 1 differently-plumaged individual at the Hudson river off Manhattan, & at least 1 additionally seen out by Randall's island well east of Manhattan island.
I spent a little time focusing on the gull gathering at the remaining ice at the reservoir this afternoon but did not come up with anything notable in gulls. Some of this morning's duck variety were still present, but dispersed much more widely in the opening water. Also I may have neglected to note that as many as 8 Hooded Mergansers had been in the park today, with 6 at once on the res. plus a pair at the meer early in the a.m. Lots of waterfowl certainly on the move all over... good birding, Tom Fiore Manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
