Date: 10/23/25 11:22 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Manhattan, N.Y. City - 10/23 - Clay-colored Sparrow still at Gansevoort, etc.
Manhattan, N.Y. City - Thursday, October 23rd -
The Clay-colored Sparrow at Gansevoort peninsula, still the only documented Clay-colored anywhere in Manhattan in the past several days was ongoing at its Hudson River waterfront pier location, into Thursday, with multiple photo-documented observations again in the public record via eBird and the Macaulay Library.
The last of any Clay-colored Sparrows documented with photos plus textual info on the public record at Central Park in Manhattan was from the north end of that park only, and was last seen on Sunday, Oct. 19 by some independent observers and photographers. The Gansevoort peninsula location of lower-west Manhattan also was continuing to host a variety of other native sparrows and multiple additional birds. At Central Park, White-crowned Sparrow was among the native sparrows which was still being seen thru Thursday, 10-23.
The Virginia Rail at Number Three Bryant Park, the narrow plaza just west of Sixth Ave., between 42nd and 41st Steeets, was reported and confirmed again, for Thursday.
A minimum of twelve warbler species were found at Central Park on Thursday, with one of the highlights among them being Orange-crowned Warbler. Other varied warbler species seen in Central Park also included American Redstart, a species which also was seen in a not-for-profit guided bird-walk at Carl Schulz Park on the east edge of Manhattan, both of those redstart sightings from Thursday, 10-23.
An Orange-crowned Warbler was also found for Thursday at Inwood Hill Park in northern Manhattan. Many observers again viewed and photographed the week-long-lingering Baltimore Oriole at Central Park on Thursday. There is thus-far no confirmed report or photo-documentation -on the record- of any hummingbird sighting at Central Park on Thursday Oct. 23rd. Sightings of Ruby-throated Hummingbird were confirmed thru photos and textual documentation thru Wednesday, at that park.
Purple Finches were seen in multiple locations on Thursday, including but not at all limited to Central Park, there in a number of sectors of that larger park. Red-breasted Nuthatches are ongoing in Central and in some other Manhattan parks. For Central Park alone, more than 65 species of wild, native birds were collectively found on Thursday, Oct. 23rd. In all of Manhattan the tally of bird species seen was more than 80 species.
Not mentioned much recently, American Coot has continued at the Central Park reservoir as has a Pied-billed Grebe, along with the lingering waterfowl there and with multiple Green-winged Teals and multiple Wood Ducks also ongoing in Central Park. Other and additional waterfowl arrivals are still anticipated at any time in both that park and around New York County.
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At Roosevelt Island just east of mid-Manhattan in the and a part of New York County a mix of migrants which included at least half-a-dozen warbler species were found by at least several observers on Thursday.
Good birding,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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