Friday, February 13, 2026

Around the nabe on Friday the 13th ( are you lucky?)


Canvasback (Aythya valisineria) (1)
- Reported Feb 13, 2026 12:30 by Parsley Steinweiss
- Penny Bridge, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.728089,-73.932269&ll=40.728089,-73.932269
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S300091246
- Comments: "Continuing:) Bright white body with brownish red head. Mostly sleeping in the sun but popped its head up long enough to see its black sloped bill:)"

Canvasback (Aythya valisineria) (1)
- Reported Feb 13, 2026 12:30 by Michael  Lombardo
- Penny Bridge, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.728089,-73.932269&ll=40.728089,-73.932269
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S300092374
- Comments: "Continuing:) Bright white body with brownish red head. Mostly sleeping in the sun but popped its head up long enough to see its black sloped bill:)"

Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) (1)
- Reported Feb 13, 2026 11:52 by Austin Johnson
- Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.646519,-74.026074&ll=40.646519,-74.026074
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S300075924
- Comments: "if this is the same bird as last year then it continues to be the only glaucous gull i've seen! in large herring and great black backed flock north of the pier across the little bay. large white winged 2cyc bird with mottled messy brown splotching on belly and wings, touch of gray on mantle, large bicolored bill. photos"

Iceland Gull (kumlieni/glaucoides) (Larus glaucoides kumlieni/glaucoides) (1)
- Reported Feb 13, 2026 11:52 by Austin Johnson
- Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.646519,-74.026074&ll=40.646519,-74.026074
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S300075924
- Comments: "1cyc in gull flock at end of the pier right as i arrived. contently foraging on the cement and then snoozed for a bit. flushed for now apparent reason to an ice floe. always a good day when you get to see an icgu :)"

Iceland Gull (kumlieni) (Larus glaucoides kumlieni) (1)
- Reported Feb 13, 2026 11:40 by Nick Dawson
- Bush Terminal Piers Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6541609,-74.0204451&ll=40.6541609,-74.0204451
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S300073854
- Comments: "On the ice beyond the 48th St pier, also swimming around. Photos."

Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 13, 2026 11:40 by Nick Dawson
- Bush Terminal Piers Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6541609,-74.0204451&ll=40.6541609,-74.0204451
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S300073854
- Comments: "On the ice at the end of the 45th St pier, possibly the same 2cy individual I saw last time. Photos."

Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) (2)
- Reported Feb 13, 2026 10:34 by MCHL ____
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S300147275
- Comments: "Pair circling together. One mature with white head and tail. Poorly photographed."

Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (6)
- Reported Feb 13, 2026 11:00 by Gerrit Claas Hau
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S300171633
- Comments: "Swimming with other waterfowl on the lake"

Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 13, 2026 13:54 by Susie Dippel
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S300167215
- Comments: "Mature, brown body, white head and tail. Soaring high"

Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 13, 2026 11:00 by Gerrit Claas Hau
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S300171633
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Flying high above the park"

Purple Finch (Haemorhous purpureus) (1)
- Reported Feb 13, 2026 13:54 by Susie Dippel
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S300167215
- Comments: "By frag near bees. Bright raspberry head and breast, colorful back."

"How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!"

-- Thomas Wentworth Higginson