Staten Island--Gray-cheeked Thrush

First I spent a couple of hours @ Mt  Loretto while Shari was at her acupuncturist. Nothing startling found, but a Belted Kingfisher filled the big-nosed bird quota for the day and a Swainson's Thrush was a good find. I got a very good look at the thrush, studying especially its face, as Sibley advises. This was fortunate, because after lunch, Shari & I birded some of the trails @ the Greenbelt Nature Center, where toward the end of our tour, after finding 5 species of warblers, we found a GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH,  a life bird for both of us. We both got good views of it and with the Swainson's fresh in my mind (which I admit I tried to turn into a gray-cheeked but honestly couldn't do it) it was very clear to me that this bird was the real thing. Less conspicuous eye-ring than Swainson's, gray eye-ring, just as in Peterson's, dull brown-gray body, and of course, a gray cheek.

Any day you add a life bird is a good day.
The score stands as:
Shari 526
Larry 513

I'll never catch up unless I go on some pelagics and I'm not very keen on doing that. Besides, it isn't a competition (unless I'm winning).

The lists:
Mount Loretto Unique Area

Number of species:    26
Canada Goose    40
Mallard    2
Double-crested Cormorant    10
Great Egret    1
Snowy Egret    1
Ring-billed Gull    2
Herring Gull    5
Rock Pigeon    20
Mourning Dove    3
Belted Kingfisher    1
Northern Flicker    2
Eastern Kingbird    4
Warbling Vireo    1
Blue Jay    3
Tree Swallow    6
Carolina Wren    1
Swainson's Thrush    1
American Robin    20
Gray Catbird    10
Northern Mockingbird    3
European Starling    100
Yellow Warbler    1
Northern Waterthrush    1
Common Yellowthroat    1
Northern Cardinal    2
American Goldfinch    3

Greenbelt Nature Center

Notes:    Nature Trail, Red, White & Blue trails.
Number of species:    16
Turkey Vulture    1    Flyover
Ruby-throated Hummingbird    1
Downy Woodpecker    3
Northern Flicker    1
Red-eyed Vireo    1
Blue Jay    5
Black-capped Chickadee    4
GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH   1
American Robin    30
Gray Catbird    10
Magnolia Warbler    1
Black-throated Blue Warbler    1
Black-and-white Warbler    4
American Redstart    2
Ovenbird    2
Northern Cardinal    2