February 19, 2025: Common Goldeneye - new species for my Inwood Hill Park list and my apartment list.

This morning I spotted two female type Common Goldeneyes in the channel off Muscota. It was a freezing cold morning with temperatures in the upper teens. I knew it was a new species for my apartment list (my 122nd), but did not realize until I looked at my records that it was new for my Inwood Hill Park list (my 230th).

Common Goldeneyes - 2/19/2025 

ADDENDA: Around noon I added another species to my apartment list. I had been hearing from birders in the park since the morning that there were one to three Horned Grebes over by Spuyten Duyvil. I had been watching hoping the incoming tide might push them over towards Muscota. I took a break to make some lunch. I was in the kitchen when Karina and Allen Greene texted me that one of the Horned Grebes was in the channel by the big “C”. Running back to the window I searched for it for a long time before finally spotting it. The bird was doing a lot of diving which was why it was so hard to spot. But when I did it became my 123rd species for the apartment.