Date: 1/18/25 2:35 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC -to 1/18-Black-headed & Iceland Gulls, Snow Goose, etc.
A Dickcissel is continuing at Riverside Park in Manhattan, often near a suet-feeder as well as in the general vicinity, a bit northwest of the park entrance located at W. 116 St. and Riverside Drive. Some patience and-or a little searching may give best chances with the Dickcissel.
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Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City -
On the Central Park reservoir, a BLACK-HEADED Gull was found and photographed Fri. and Sat., Jan. 17 and 18. An Iceland Gull was present there again on Thurs., Jan. 16, and has been continuing as well. Common Loon is another presence along with the lingering and wandering single Snow Goose mainly appearing in Central Park. Double-crested Cormorants also have been appearing in Central Park.
Ducks of at least a dozen species were still in Central Park thru Saturday, featuring among others Green-winged Teal, Ring-necked Duck, Wood Ducks, and all 3 merganser species with very good numbers of Hooded Merganser for this park.
Rusty Blackbird is still another ongoing species at Central Park, along with Brown-headed Cowbird, some Red-winged Blackbirds, and numbers of Common Grackles.
Also still being seen at Central Park -
American Coots
Mourning Doves - still in high numbers.
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture - flyovers.
Bald Eagle - flyovers.
Sharp-shinned Hawk, Coopers Hawks, and Red-shouldered Hawks
Merlin, American Kestrel, and Peregrine Falcons - some as flyovers.
Yellow-shafted Flicker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Hairy, Downy, and Red-bellied Woodpeckers
Common Ravens, American Crows, Blue Jays
Black-capped Chickadees, Tufted Titmice - many of each.
Winter and Carolina Wrens
Red-breasted and White-breasted Nuthatches - both in the multiple.
Golden-crowned and Ruby-crowned Kinglets in the multiple.
Brown Thrashe, Gray Catbird, and N. Mockingbirds
Hermit Thrushes and many American Robins
Cedar Waxwings, Purple and House Finches, American Goldfinches
Red Fox, Swamp, Chipping, Song, and many White-throated Sparrows
and Dark-eyed Juncos, as well as Eastern Towhee.
and various additional species of wild, native birds.
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At least 6 Killdeer gathered on the Sherman Creek mudflats area northeast of the eastern end of Dyckman Street in northern Manhattan on Sat., 1-18, and Myrtle form of Yellow-rumped Warbler was also present there Saturday.
Thanks to many keen observers and photographers for sightings and reports via non-x alerts and the eBird network including the Macaulay Library for media.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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