City Hall Park, NYC
Saturday, December 10, 2016
OBS: Deborah Allen
Some of this morning's birds seen with Brad Woodward visiting from Maine.
Red-tailed Hawk - immature stirring up flock of Rock Pigeons (northeast section)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 (northeast section)
Ovenbird - 1 (northeast section) spotted by Brad Woodward
Black-throated Blue Warbler - male (northeast section)
Hermit Thrush - 1 (south of City Hall)
Swamp Sparrow - 1 (northeast section)
White-throated Sparrow - at least 20 (northeast section)
Dark-eyed Junco - 2 (northeast section)
Western Tanager - immature male (northeast section)
The tanager, sapsuckers, and Black-throated Blue Warbler were all seen in the now leafless elm, as usual.
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Apparently the link I posted to the photo of the Empidonax flycatcher at Inwood Hill Park (taken on Friday, Dec. 9) didn't work, so here it is again. You can click on the photo to view it in a larger size in which the emargination of four primaries (P6-9) is easy to see:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18320149
P6 is not emarginated in Willow, Alder, & Acadian Flycatchers (Pyle Vol. 1).
Pale, buffy tips on the rectrices of hatch-year Empids are mentioned for Least and Acadian Flycatchers in Pyle Vol 1. The bird shown in the photo appears to have had buffy tips on the rectrices which have faded to whitish. Perhaps this characteristic is common to other species of Empidonax flycatchers but simply not mentioned in Pyle.
Deb Allen
Saturday, December 10, 2016
OBS: Deborah Allen
Some of this morning's birds seen with Brad Woodward visiting from Maine.
Red-tailed Hawk - immature stirring up flock of Rock Pigeons (northeast section)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 (northeast section)
Ovenbird - 1 (northeast section) spotted by Brad Woodward
Black-throated Blue Warbler - male (northeast section)
Hermit Thrush - 1 (south of City Hall)
Swamp Sparrow - 1 (northeast section)
White-throated Sparrow - at least 20 (northeast section)
Dark-eyed Junco - 2 (northeast section)
Western Tanager - immature male (northeast section)
The tanager, sapsuckers, and Black-throated Blue Warbler were all seen in the now leafless elm, as usual.
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Apparently the link I posted to the photo of the Empidonax flycatcher at Inwood Hill Park (taken on Friday, Dec. 9) didn't work, so here it is again. You can click on the photo to view it in a larger size in which the emargination of four primaries (P6-9) is easy to see:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18320149
P6 is not emarginated in Willow, Alder, & Acadian Flycatchers (Pyle Vol. 1).
Pale, buffy tips on the rectrices of hatch-year Empids are mentioned for Least and Acadian Flycatchers in Pyle Vol 1. The bird shown in the photo appears to have had buffy tips on the rectrices which have faded to whitish. Perhaps this characteristic is common to other species of Empidonax flycatchers but simply not mentioned in Pyle.
Deb Allen
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