Date: 1/10/25 4:43 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] 1/9 Bean-Goose at Washington Co., NY and Manhattan, NYC - B.-t. Grackle, Dickcissel, Snow Goose, etc.
Whether the suspected identification is correct to precise species, or somehow is not, this sighting and report deserve a bit of attention, state-wide and region-wide, a great bean-goose find from Washington County, NY, on Thursday - https://ebird.org/checklist/S208670543
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Manhattan, N.Y. City - Thursday, Jan. 9 -
A Dickcissel was ongoing in Riverside Park-north, at and around a small suet-feeder and vicinity, with the tennis courts nearest W. 119th St. just to the north, this area inside that park west of Riverside Drive. The Dickcissel may require patience to see, or to see well.
A Snow Goose was ongoing in Manhattan, for Thursday again taking in the Central Park reservoir with all the many other waterfowl and waterbirds, which have included Pied-billed Grebe, American Coot, the many Canada Geese also roaming at times as with the one Snow Goose of this county, and for the CP reservoir, many gulls, sometimes many hundreds to sort thru.
Still ongoing are also Wood Ducks, all 3 Merganser species with Hooded the most-numerous, and a couple of Green-winged Teal at The Pool in the parks n-w sector, as well as most of the commoner regular ducks of the area, American Black, Ruddy, and N. Shovelers, Buffleheads, Gadwall, etc.
Anyone missing seeing grackles might not have been in Manhattan, or in particular, not birding much in Central Park here in the past week, with ongoing flocks of grackle occasionally getting notice when they briefly darkened pieces of sky over some areas. And then we had the different bird, as one BOAT-TAILED Grackle was found and photographed -P. Soriano- see https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/628821507 - in the vicinity of one of the good-sized flocks of Common Grackles in the north end of that park, on Thursday, 1-9. Rusty Blackbird also has continued in that park.
Other birds ongoing in Manhattan include some of both species of Kinglets, Gray Catbirds, E. Towhees, a fair number of hardy Hermit Thrushes, shy Brown Thrashers, ongoing Red-breasted Nuthatches, and sparrows which number far into the 100s for White-throated, while Red Fox Sparrow is much less common and still thinly distributed in a number of parks and green-spaces. American Robins have continued in fairly high numbers at some locations in Manhattan.
Thanks to many keen observers and photographers for a lot of great finds, and reports, in the chilled weather and winds of late.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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