#358 Blue Grosbeak
Monday, October 9th, 2006Blue Grosbeaks are regular accidentals in New York. Usually they show up on Staten Island or along the coast at Fort Tilden or Jones Beach. I’d avoided chasing any of several that had showed up earlier this year, but the recent sighting in Central Park, where they’re much less common, was too tempting to resist. Starr Saphir first found the bird on Saturday morning. It has hung around since then, and was reported again this morning at 9:30 A.M. I’d considered heading out early to try for the bird, but I had a noon lunch meeting in town, and I didn’t want to show up all sweaty from the park, so I took a chance that the bird would still be there in the afternoon. It paid off.
