Date: 5/15/24 9:02 pm From: Andrew Block <ablock22168...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Sterling Forest Woodcock, Whip-poor-wills, and more
While herping this evening the woodcock was back at his usual courting place next to the upper parking lot at the visitor center. He made some sounds I had not heard them make before. A very accomidating bird. Also had a first for me there, at least three Whip-poor-wills calling just after dark. Didn't know they were nesting there. Suppose they might have been passing through, but they seemed to be on territory. Nice. Also had two species of a family of birds we're not allowed ot mention here. Contact me if you anyone wants to know what they were;-)
Andrew
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Date: 5/15/24 1:03 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - 5/13-14-15 - WESTERN Tanager, Willet, Summer Tanagers, continuing migration...
New York County -in N.Y. City- including Manhattan, Randalls, Governors, and Roosevelt Islands, and the adjacent waters and skies above -
Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday, May 13-14-15th -
On May 15th, a Western Tanager showed at Manhattans Hudson River shore north of West 23rd St, by the Chelsea waterfront sector of the greenway, the bird well photod and eBirded by R. Jacobs, with a photo link to Macaulay Library archives here -
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/619089342
A Willet -which geographic form, Eastern or Western not specified but somewhat more likely just now may be the Eastern Willet- was seen off Inwood Hill Park in Manhattan. Exceedingly rare for N.Y. County, even while regular and fully-expected in other parts of the same city. Thanks to D. Karlson for the report of this special find, on May 13th.
At least one Summer Tanager was again found in Central Park on May 13, and May 14, following on the series of sightings, most with accompanying photos, of the species there and elsewhere in Manhattan and the county already this month. The recent sightings noted from Central have pertained to plumages of young male or males.
Two Caspian Terns were reported from the Hudson River waterfront off the lower west side of Manhattan with accompanying photos by A. Cunningham, on May 15th.
Some of the Empidonax-genus Flycatchers are showing - and calling or singing, importantly, for better chances of positive ID on many of these birds. Willow Flycatchers are among these, as well as ongoing Least Flycatchers, but also at least a few more Acadian Flycatchers and, as is typical, unidentified, possibly quiet Empidonax genus flycatchers. E. Wood-Pewee are coming through but still not in their highest-peak numbers, while E. Kingbirds and Great Crested Flycatchers are well established or have passed in good numbers, as had E. Phoebes, which are getting scarcer in this county where breeding of the last-named is scant. A few Olive-sided Flycatchers have passed, with more still anticipated - the same of more of the five expected species of the genus Empidonax.
Warbler sightings for the county continue to include some Palm Warblers, and good numbers of such species as Bay-breasted and Blackpoll Warblers along with at least 22 additional warbler species. A Marsh Wren was still being seen at Inwood Hill Park thru May 14th. Modest numbers of Purple Finches were still passing through the county in general.
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2 American Oystercatchers were found and photod off Randalls Island on May 12, thanks to A. Cunningham for the report.
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A singing male Yellow-throated Warbler has been confirmed from May 9, at Central Parks n. end, and thanks to K. John for the prior report. This was on same day as many more saw and-or heard a male Cerulean Warbler in that same sector of that park, the Yellow-throated Warbler having been in a less-visited part of that sector of woods.
A Marsh Wren was surprisingly still lingering on at Inwood Hill Park, seen by many observers by now. A late Buffelehead had been lingering to at least May 12th on the Central Park reservoir, also with many other observers.
There are many many other interesting bird sightings still turning up and with thanks to the great many quiet and keen observers reporting on so many birds including migrants, visitants, and some now or soon breeding birds of N.Y. County.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
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Date: 5/14/24 5:20 pm From: <marciaaabrahams...> <marciaaabrahams...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Don't miss tomorrow evening's Queens County Bird Club meeting featuring Seth Ausubel & Mary Normandia "Hawk Migration (and other birds) in Tubac, AZ"
The next Queens County Bird Club meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, at 7:30 PM at the Alley Pond Environmental Center, 229-10 Northern Boulevard, Douglaston, NY 11362.
Seth Ausubel and Mary Normandia will present "Hawk Migration (and other birds) in Tubac, AZ."
This presentation showcases migrating raptors and other birds seen near the Santa Cruz River in Southeast Arizona. The Tubac Hawk Watch has provided many insights on the migration of the Common Black Hawk and other raptors rare in the USA and has become a destination for thousands of birders each year. Seth Ausubel and Mary Normandia, who still live part time in Queens, have resided in Tubac since 2020 and have seen a lot of nice birds there. They will share their experiences at this remarkable place.
Please arrive early since the front door must be locked after the meeting starts.
Marcia AbrahamsVP/Programs CoordinatorQueens County Bird Clubwww.qcbirdclub.orgEmail: <MarciaAAbrahams...>
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Date: 5/13/24 5:20 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Mon. May 13, 2024: Willow Flycatcher, Gray-cheeked/Bicknell's, 20 Species of Wood Warblers
Central Park NYC
Monday May 13, 2024
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Willow Flycatcher, Gray-cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush, 20 Species of Wood Warblers including Nashville, Cape May, Bay-breasted, Blackburnian, and Prairie Warblers, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting.
Canada Goose - 8
Mallard - 20-25
Mourning Dove - 45-55
Herring Gull - 12
Double-crested Cormorant - 15-20
Great Egret - 1 Reservoir (Bob - early)
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 Lake
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4
Northern Flicker - 2 or 3
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 Ramble
Eastern Kingbird - 2 Belvedere Castle
Willow Flycatcher - 1 vocalizing south side Turtle Pond
Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 Ramble near Evodia Field (Paul Curtis)
Warbling Vireo - 3 or 4
Red-eyed Vireo - 4 or 5
Blue Jay - 5 or 6
American Crow - 1 flyover
Tufted Titmouse - 1 Ramble
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 Ramble
Cedar Waxwing - 2 or 3 Belvedere Castle (Karen Evans)
House Wren - 1 Tupelo Field
Gray Catbird - 10-15 including one nest
Veery - 1 Upper Lobe
Gray-cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush - 1 Upper Lobe (Edmund Berry)
Wood Thrush - 3 or 4
American Robin -20-25
House Finch - 4 females
American Goldfinch - 1 male at the Pond (Deb - after lunch)
White-throated Sparrow - 2 or 3
Song Sparrow - 1 heard
Swamp Sparrow - 1 Tupelo Field
Eastern Towhee - 2 (male Gill (Scott Brevda), female Wagner Cove)
Baltimore Oriole - 4 or 5
Red-winged Blackbird - 5 or 6
Common Grackle - 8-10
Ovenbird - 10-15
Northern Waterthrush - 4
Black-and-white Warbler - 10-15
Nashville Warbler - 2 Summit Rock (Bob - early)
Common Yellowthroat - 15-20
American Redstart - 8-10
Cape May Warbler - 5
Northern Parula - 8-0
Magnolia Warbler - 6-8
Bay-breasted Warbler - 2 (the Point, Tupelo Field)
Blackburnian Warbler - 5
Yellow Warbler - 4 or 5
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3
Blackpoll Warbler - 3
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 6 or 7
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 or 3
Prairie Warbler - 1 Upper Lobe (Edmund Berry)
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 Summit Rock (Bob - early)
Canada Warbler - 1 south of Weather Station (Karen Evans)
Wilson's Warbler - 3 or 4
Scarlet Tanager - 1 male Strawberry Fields (Peter Haskel)
Northern Cardinal - 6-8
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 female Oven (Karen Evans)
Indigo Bunting - 1 Summit Rock (Bob - early)
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Date: 5/12/24 2:38 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - past week+ in highlights, to 5/12 - Bicknells Thrush, Summer Tanagers, Blue Grosbeak, Cerulean + other warblers, odd Wild Turkey, etc.
New York County -in N.Y. City- including Manhattan -
with Central Park featured for all of the species noted in the above subject-line -
And all of Manhattan, Randalls, Governors, and Roosevelt islands, as well as adjacent waters and the skies above -
Thru Mothers Day May 12th -
It has been a busy-birding week with a lot of interesting species and great diversity appearing lately all through the county and of course, in the broader region as well. Just some highlights are featured below, with over 160 species of birds having occurred in this county in recent days, and with more than 120 of those just within and over Central Park in Manhattan.
Central Park features for a good number of recent highlights - perhaps top amongst these, even if surely annual of occurrence, was a sometimes-singing BICKNELLS Thrush, in the Ramble area of Central, on May 11 and found by Benjamin Van Doren, for all other many observers to admire later that day, sometimes going silent but fairly obliging for views. Scores and scores of observers to this much-hope-to-see-and-hear species.
A further addition to Blue Grosbeak sightings for this county came on May 9 at Central Park, with a well noted adult male seen there, albeit not seen by many or in subsequent days at the site.
Summer Tanager has been near common in comparison with almost any past spring in this county, with as many as 6, and probably up to ten-plus individuals in varying plumages and molt sequences, over just the past week or so in the county, and up to five or likely more individuals within Central Park alone this month of May. Many photos of the various Summer Tanagers will show some of the differing plumages, in addition to some widely separated locations on some same-day reports of the species. Young females, young males, as well as adult females, bright breeding males and also 2nd-year plumages are all among the multiplicity of these birds occurring in what might almost be termed SummerTanagerSpring of this county.
The May 9 Cerulean Warbler, a singing male, and the second of this species for the island of Manhattan this spring, and this month, to be fully documented, was found on the noted date by some women birders who early in the day put out word via non-X alerting systems which the majority of birders use these days, as well as thru eBird alerts in very common use everywhere, those early reports by several women birders helping to bring more observers to the sites at Central Parks northern end, where many eventually saw, as well as heard, the 5-9 Cerulean, always a much-hoped-for species in this county. There is a chance that more than one individual singing male Cerulean was within the north end of Central Park on that day, going by the several locations, although of course also possible one individual was mobile in its feeding places in that sector of the park on that day.
At least 30 species of migratory American warblers have been seen this past week in the county, with up to 25 or more regularly being seen in Central Park PER day, on most days of the past week here. Some Mourning Warblers have been found and at least some of that species also slipped thru - typically for any year - nearly undetected. Some among more commonly seen species of warbler in recent days, esp for May 11 and 12th, included Ovenbirds, Common Yellowthroats, and just lately, Magnolia Warblers, with American Redstarts and N. Parulas also being rather numerous still. Many other species were still being seen into double or even triple digits for particular days, within N.Y. County, and overall including active morning flights, the migratory American Warblers have been passing in the neighborhood of high 6-digit to over 1 million birds on migrations, not unusually in peak mid-May movements. Some of that detected from NFC, nocturnal flight calls data. Many many other species besides the above-noted have been widely seen in nice numbers, including the boreal-breeders such as Cape May, Tennessee, Bay-breasted, Blackpoll, Wilsons, and various many othe r warbler species.
An adult Red-headed Woodpecker at the Central Park Ramble was noted only from May 11, at least going from all reporting thus far. On May 11th at Governors Island, a couple of Purple Sandpipers were still found, a nice sighting well into May. Many more birds of interest have also been seen in or from Governors Island in this month.
Some of the Glossy Ibis sightings of this month included a trio of them moving past lower Manhattan on May 8, with thanks to C. Williams for a report on those. It has been good to see some reports include Yellow-crowned Night-Heron for sightings recently from Randalls Island.
A very odd-for-location Wild Turkey was seen for at least a few days in the area of mid-Manhattans Park Ave. near 49th St, by many many surprised observers, with a lot of photos and videos made of this wanderer, from just where is perhaps to stay a small mystery. The bird was a female, and was occasionally seen on a sidewalk but more often in some plantings, and also up in street trees of that mid-urban area.
Some Pine Siskins and Purple Finches have come thru in recent days, esp for May 9th in this county.
There were a few later-lingereRS in some locations, for Central Park including such species as Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers -the latter species in many more locations as well this past week- and Winter
Wren, also getting a bit late here, by now. A nice migration of -expected right now- Savannah Sparrows have been noted from many locations all around the country.
Some Black Vulture sightings included at least a few away from the northern parts of Manhattan, where these can be regular, and with a good sighting from Central Park on May 11th by multiple observers birding together.
Thanks to the many keen, quiet observers of so many migrants, resident and breeding birds recently in and around the county.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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Date: 5/12/24 12:26 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Sun. May 12, 2024: 18 Species of Wood Warblers, Spotted Sandpiper, Indigo Bunting
Central Park NYC
Sunday May 12, 2024
OBS: Robert DeCandido PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Spotted Sandpiper, Eighteen Species of Wood Warblers including Tennessee, Cape May, Bay-breasted, and Prairie Warblers, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting.
Canada Goose - 6
Mallard - 8
Mourning Dove - 35-45
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 male uphill from Boathouse
Spotted Sandpiper - 2 Oven
Herring Gull - 10-12 flyovers
Double-crested Cormorant - 6
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4
Downy Woodpecker - 2 Ramble
Northern Flicker - 4 or 5
Eastern Kingbird - 3
Warbling Vireo - 2 Upper Lobe
Red-eyed Vireo - 3
Blue Jay - 4 or 5
Tufted Titmouse - 1 Ramble
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Ramble
Cedar Waxwing - 8
House Wren - 1 Shakespeare Garden
Gray Catbird - 15-20
Veery - 3 or 4
Swainson's Thrush - 3
Wood Thrush - 1 singing Maintenance Field
American Robin - 40-50
White-throated Sparrow - 8-10
Baltimore Oriole - 7 or 8
Red-winged Blackbird - 3 or 4
Common Grackle - 10-15
Ovenbird - 15-20
Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Oven, Upper Lobe)
Black-and-white Warbler - 8-10
Tennessee Warbler - 1 singing west of Belvedere Castle
Common Yellowthroat - 10-15
American Redstart - 6-8
Cape May Warbler - 3
Northern Parula - 9-12
Magnolia Warbler - 9 or 10
Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 female Balancing Rock (Annie Plum}
Yellow Warbler - 1 west side of Belvedere Castle
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 or 4
Blackpoll Warbler - 1 male Belvedere Castle
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5-7
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 or 4
Prairie Warbler - 2 (Turtle Pond Island, Belvedere Castle)
Black-throated Green Warbler - 3
Wilson's Warbler - 1 male Summer House
Scarlet Tanager - 2 (male and female) Balancing Rock
Northern Cardinal - 6-8
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 females
Indigo Bunting - 1 male Top of the Point
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Date: 5/11/24 6:29 pm From: Andrew Block <ablock22168...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Sterling Forest and Mine Road birds
5/11/24 - Sterling Forest S.P. and Mine Torne Rd., Tuxedo and West Point, Orange Co., NY
Time: 845am to 315pmObservers: Andrew Block and Keith Geller
5 Canada Geese3 Wild Turkeys4 Mourning Doves2 Yellow-billed Cuckoos4 Black-billed Cuckoos (incl. two at the end of Ironwood Dr. eating tent caterpillars and calling, great photo op)2 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds1 Great Blue Heronmany Turkey Vultures1 Red-shouldered Hawk1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker1 Hairy Woodpecker1 Northern Flicker2 Pileated Woodpeckers1 Great Crested Flycatcher1 Least Flycatcher2 Eastern Phoebes5 Warbling Vireos3 Red-eyed Vireos3 Blue Jays2 American Crows2 Common Ravens1 Black-capped Chickadee6 Tufted Titmice4 Barn Swallows2 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers2 Carolina Wrens1 House Wrenseveral Gray Catbirds2 Eastern Bluebirds2 Wood Thrushesseveral American Robinsseveral American Goldfinchesmany Chipping Sparrows3 Field Sparrows1 White-throated Sparrow3 Eastern Towhees4 Baltimore Orioles6 Red-winged Blackbirds4 Common Grackles1 Ovenbird3 Worm-eating Warblers8 Blue-winged Warblers4 Black-and-white Warblers2 Nashville Warblers2 Common Yellowthroats5 Hooded Warblersseveral American Redstarts12 Cerulean Warblers3 Northern Parulas4 Yellow Warblers1 Chestnut-sided Warbler7 Scarlet Tanagers2 Northern Cardinals8 Indigo Buntings
Amazingly no Golden-winged Warblers even though some were seen a few days ago at Ironwood Dr.
Andrew
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Date: 5/11/24 1:50 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Sat. May 11, 2024: Red-headed Woodpecker, 20 Species of Wood Warblers
Central Park NYC
Saturday May 11, 2024
OBS: Robert DeCandido PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Red-headed Woodpecker, Orchard Oriole, 20 Species of Wood Warblers including Tennessee, Hooded, Cape May, Bay-breasted, and Blackburnian Warblers, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting.
Canada Goose - around 20
Wood Duck - 1 male Reservoir (Deb - 6am)
Gadwall - pair Reservoir (Deb - early)
Mallard - 10-15
Mourning Dove - 25-35
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 male east of Maintenance Field
Herring Gull - around 10
Great Black-backed Gull - 1 Reservoir
Double-crested Cormorant - 20-25
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 flyover
Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 adult Oven
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 nests under construction (Eu. Starling problem at one already)
Downy Woodpecker - 2 (top of Oven, Azalea Pond)
Northern Flicker - 3 or 4
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Summer House
Eastern Kingbird - 3
Eastern Wood-Peewee - 2 Ramble (Sandra Critelli, Karen Evans, Dan Stevenson, Peter Haskel)
Blue-headed Vireo - 2 or 3
Warbling Vireo - 6-8
Red-eyed Vireo - 8-10
Blue Jay - 8-10 with 4 nests
Tufted Titmouse - 1 west side of Ramble
Barn Swallow - 4 (2 nests under construction Reservoir (Deb - 6:30am)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 south of Tupelo Field (Ryan Serio)
Cedar Waxwing - flyover flock of 10
House Wren - 3
Gray Catbird - 20-25
Veery - 2 or 3
Swainson's Thrush - 2 Ramble
Hermit Thrush - 1 Upper Lobe
Wood Thrush - 4 or 5
American Robin - 35-45 (many nests)
House Finch - 2 or 3 Ramble
White-throated Sparrow - 20-25
Song Sparrow - 4
Lincoln's Sparrow - 2 (south side of Turtle Pond)
Eastern Towhee - 3 or 4 (males and females)
Orchard Oriole - 1 second-year male southwest Reservoir bridge (Deb - 7:05am)
Baltimore Oriole - 10-12
Red-winged Blackbird - 9-12
Common Grackle - 20-25
Ovenbird - 10-15
Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Upper Lobe, Turtle Pond)
Black-and-white Warbler - 9-12
Tennessee Warbler - 1 singing male uphill from Boathouse
Common Yellowthroat - 25-30
Hooded Warbler - 2 (1 male, 1 female) Tupelo Field
American Redstart - 6-8
Cape May Warbler - 3 or 4
Northern Paula - 12-16
Magnolia Warbler - 8-10
Bay-breasted Warbler - 2 on the Point
Blackburnian Warbler - 4 or 5
Yellow Warbler - 4 or 5
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 4 or 5
Blackpoll Warbler - 2 (Point, Ramble)
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 or 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 or 6
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 male on the Point (Paul Curtis)
Canada Warbler - 2 (Point, Upper Lobe)
Wilson's Warbler - 2 (Summer House, Point)
Scarlet Tanager - 1 female Summer House
Northern Cardinal - 8-10
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 females (Maintenance Field, Ramble)
Indigo Bunting - 1 male Summer House
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Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, May 10,
2024 at 11:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, AMERICAN WHITE
PELICAN, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD, HARLEQUIN DUCK, ICELAND GULL,
GULL-BILLED, BLACK and CASPIAN TERNS, PROTHONOTARY, YELLOW-THROATED
and KENTUCKY WARBLERS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and
more.
Following last week's two brief sightings, another SWALLOW-TAILED KITE
appeared this week, this over Brooklyn's Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature
Center last Saturday, fortunately staying in sight long enough to be
photographed before disappearing.
The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN lingering in Upper New York Bay continued
to be seen south of Governors Island, often from the Staten Island
ferry, until Tuesday but not thereafter.
A female YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was found today at Sunset Cove Park
in Queens, this new park off Crossbay Boulevard on the south side of
Broad Channel. This was also the site for a HARLEQUIN DUCK just
offshore there in Jamaica Bay on Tuesday and Wednesday.
An ICELAND was still present Monday off Dune Road in the Tiana Beach
area west of the Ponquogue Bridge.
At Nickerson Beach activity has been picking up recently with reports
of ROSEATE, BLACK and GULL-BILLED TERNS, the latter peaking with nine
there last Sunday.
Single CASPIAN TERNS were spotted at Hempstead Lake State Park last
Saturday and at Playland Park in Rye today. And pelagic activity has
also begun, with a PARASITIC JAEGER as well as two BLACK TERNS off
Robert Moses State Park on Wednesday, these following two or more
SOOTY SHEARWATERS spotted from the Staten Island Ferry and off Staten
Island in New York Harbor last Monday, when another BLACK TERN
occurred off Governors Island.
A WESTERN CATTLE EGRET appeared Thursday in Patchogue at the terminal
for the ferry over to Watch Hill, Rhode Island, while a GRASSHOPPER
SPARROW was in Inwood Hill Park to Monday.
A PROTHONOTARY WARBLER on Randalls Island last Sunday was followed by
Wednesday sightings at both Alley Pond Park and at Floyd Bennett
Field.
Besides the continuing birds at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great
River, other YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS were spotted at nearby
Connetquot River State Park as well as in Prospect Park last Saturday
and on Captree Island Wednesday. A KENTUCKY WARBLER was present last
weekend at Conference House Park on Staten Island, and another was
reported at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Monday.
Among the many other WARBLER species currently moving through, weather
permitting, have been single CERULEANS at Fort Tryon Park last
Saturday and in Central Park Thursday, a MOURNING in Central Park
Wednesday, and a few ORANGE-CROWNEDS, including in Central and Forest
Parks and at Jamaica Bay and Hempstead Lake.
SUMMER TANAGERS were present in Central Park, with two recently, as
well as in Forest Park Tuesday and Pelham Bay Park Thursday, and BLUE
GROSBEAKS have returned to Calverton, with one also appearing in
Green-Wood Cemetery Thursday.
A DICKCISSEL was noted flying over Astoria Wednesday morning, and one
was photographed at the Elizabeth A. Morton NWR in Noyack today.
Among the many other recent arrivals have been more of both CUCKOOS,
YELLOW-BILLED outnumbering BLACK-BILLED, COMMON NIGHTHAWK,
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, OLIVE-SIDED, WILLOW and ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS,
with the other Empidonax species also due currently, EASTERN
WOOD-PEWEE and BOBOLINK.
To phone in reports call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922.
This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the
National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling.
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Date: 5/10/24 7:00 am From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Thu. May 9, 2024: 22 Wood Warbler Species, Common Loon, Yellow-throated Vireo
Central Park NYC
Thursday May 9, 2024
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Common Loon, Spotted Sandpiper, Yellow-throated Vireo, 22 Wood Warbler Species including Worm-eating, Tennessee, Bay-breasted, Cape May and Blackburnian Warblers.
In addition to the warblers listed below: a Cerulean Warbler was reported first at the Loch by Benny Romero @Benny33946306 and by Peter Neski and subsequently seen/heard by others in the North Woods. A Mourning Warbler was reported at the Great Hill/Children's Glade ( https://twitter.com/mbalerter/status/1788641799679979995 )
Canada Goose - 10-15
Mallard - 5-10
Mourning Dove - 40-50
Chimney Swift - 6-10
Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Oven
Herring Gull - around 30
Great Black-backed Gull - 5
Common Loon - 2 Reservoir
Double-crested Cormorant - 15-20
Red-tailed Hawk - 2
Red-bellied woodpecker - 3 or 4
Downy Woodpecker - 3 or 4
Northern Flicker - 2 or 3
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 (Gill Overlook, Oven)
Eastern Kingbird - 3
Yellow-throated Vireo - 2 (Weather Station Circle (Annie Plum), Ramble (Paul Curtis))
Blue-headed Vireo - 3 or 4
Warbling Vireo - 3 or 4
Red-eyed Vireo - 8-10
Blue Jay - 3 active nests
American Crow - flock of 8-10 (Bob - late)
Common Raven - 1 flyover at Oven (Bob - late)
Tufted Titmouse - 1 at Oven
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 or 4
Cedar Waxwing - flyover flock of 10
House Wren - 3
Gray Catbird - 15-20
Veery - 3 or 4
Swainson's Thrush - 4 or 5
Hermit Thrush - 2 or 3
Wood Thrush - 2 or 3
American Robin - 50-60
House Finch - 8-10
American Goldfinch - 2 Tupelo Field (Bob - early)
White-throated Sparrow - 15-20
Eastern Towhee - 3 or 4
Baltimore Oriole - 5-7
Red-winged Blackbird - 7 or 8
Common Grackle - 15-20
Ovenbird - 10-14
Worm-eating Warbler - 1 Loch (Caren Jahre and Deb - after lunch, found by others)
Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Upper Lobe (Dan Stevenson), Oven)
Blue-winged Warbler - 3
Black-and-white Warbler - 20-25
Tennessee Warbler - 1 south side Turtle Pond
Nashville Warbler - 2 or 3
Common Yellowthroat - 12-16
American Redstart - 5-8
Cape May Warbler - 4 or 5
Northern Parula - 15-20
Magnolia Warbler - 8-12
Bay-breasted Warbler - 6 (5 males, 1 female)
Blackburnian Warbler - 1 male south side Turtle Pond (Paul Curtis)
Yellow Warbler - 4 or 5
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 4 or 5
Blackpoll Warbler - 2 Ramble
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5 or 6 including 2 females
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 6 or 7
Black-throated Green Warbler - 5 or 6
Canada Warbler - 1 male Bow Bridge
Wilson's Warbler - 3 or 4
Scarlet Tanager - 2 (male Gill Overlook, female Weather Station Circle)
Northern Cardinal - 8-10
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 or 3
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Date: 5/10/24 1:59 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC - Thursday, May 9 - Cerulean Warbler
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The singing male Cerulean Warbler at the north woods area of the park on Thursday, May 9th was seen by a fair number who were in that area, or tried later in the day for it. The visibility factors now, even for various birds which may be singing well, is tough with the now summer-like extent of leaf-out in almost all of the many types of trees growing there, and more generally as to early May leafout in the broader region, particularly where less affected by cooler marine air. Thanks to all who were sharing reports of this always-much-hoped-for species, for N.Y. City. This was at least the 2nd Cerulean male to be found on Manhattan island so far this May, or just within the past week here. Many other migrants also continue to be seen, far more than 100 species each day even just for Central Park, including some flyover sightings from there.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
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Date: 5/8/24 12:48 pm From: Andrew Block <ablock22168...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Mine Road is open
To anyone who cares, I just found out Mine Road at West Point has reopened. Don't know when, but it's open now. I hope this is a recent opening and I haven't been missing several years of going there. I missed going to that place for so long. Such a great area.
Andrew
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Date: 5/8/24 6:23 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - Tues.-Wed., May 7-8 - Am. Oystercatcher, many more migrant-arrivals, + an odd-midtown Turkey
Two reports, thus far, of Sooty Shearwater have come in via eBird, for the Richmond County - Staten Island - side of New York harbor, in N.Y. City, and thus far, for May 6, only. That species has been seen and photographed, in minimal numbers by onshore observers, in southern New Jersey ocean waters as well just this month. More of that species could well be in the larger regions sea-waters on passage, and certainly will be as this month goes along. Finding any shearwater not driven in by a tropical storm, IN the upper New York harbor, from the Verrazano Narrows and bridge of same name, or to the near-north, is exceedingly rare in this modern era.
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New York County -in N.Y. City- including Manhattan, Randalls, and Governors Islands and other islands and adjacent waters of the county -
Tuesday and Wednesday, May 7th and 8th -
Some good fallout of migrants has been found in at-least select locations, with the storms that have been rolling through the region and into-thru this county, and it may be for at least several more days that some migrants will be revealed, which were already-arrived as of Wed, May 8th. A number of species were increased and, at same time by Wed., there were a lot of birds that had moved out, some just on Tuesday night and the wee hours of Wed, 5-7 and 5-8. As one example, many of the sparrows that were numerous just this past week, had moved on, such as White-throated Sparrows for a prime example. Some numbers of the latter are still about, here, but up to 95 percent of these moved out from this county. Those showing now also include fresh passage-migrants. The overall northbound migrations on Tuesday night were fairly intense in the entire region. If one has the chance, some Wed. birding may be very productive.
A multiplicity of observers were out on Governors Island on Tuesday, 5-7 and some saw and photographed American Oystercatcher ON the island, at the pier area, which is where Common Terns also are regularly found in-season. There were also sightings of the species flying off and near the same island on Tuesday. Some other recent sightings have taken place by birders in and around N.Y. Harbor in the first week in May this year. No tubenoses, no pelicans, and it seems also no Purple Sandpipers were noted from Governors Island as of Tuesday, by the multiple watchers on the island and also some on ferries or watching parts of N.Y. Harbor from other shores.
Many migrants are continuing to arrive, some in numbers and some still in minimal showings, although most of such are also showing lately in places to the north of this city already, in general, with some on territories as well. Most recently, as late as Wed. early-morning, May 8, are at least some of the Empidonax additional to the many Least Flycatchers that have been moving thru for a while by now, these have included at-least Acadian, and Willow Flycatchers, and possibly others in the genus Empidonax, A few Olive-sided Flycatchers also are showing recently with more E. Wood-Pewees in the area, and certainly still many Great Crested Flycatchers and E. Kingbirds, each of the 2 latter species also breeding annually in this county. A much-scarcer breeder in N.Y. County, E. Phoebe, have moved thru in numbers, with still some passage right now.
Both species of Cuckoo to be expected are showing, or rather at-least being glimpsed and sometimes heard here, the more numerous so far, as expected are Yellow-billed, with Black-billed Cuckoo, just possibly building in numbers as-of Wed., 5-8. Also having arrived were some Common Nighthawks, which are regular in both spring and fall, and have been seen at both dusk and dawn hours locally. More are sure to be passing in coming weeks. All of these species noted are or have been found within Central Park, and however also are and can be found in other of the parks and greenspaces within the county. Yellow-billed Cuckoos have been seen in diverse locations in the county already, with of course multiples found at Central Park, where Black-billed were so-far more scarce, seen in that last and in a few other parks and greenspaces in recent days, including for 5-8 at Central.
The sixth, somewhat expected but typically more-scarce Vireo of the migration seasons has arrived, Philadelphia Vireo, with at least two from Central Park, and should be watched for anywhere for now. The songs, if singing, can be tricky for many even when an observer is familiar with this species, so visuals are ideal in confirming this vireos presence on passage here. The other 5 expected vireos each continued to show, with at least 2 nesting annually and a 3rd a definite possibility, that last being White-eyed Vireo, some of which nest each year in proper habits in N.Y. City. There is also a chance for Yellow-throated Vireo as a breeder in N.Y. County, albeit quite scarce as-such over the decades. That species has however bred in even Central Park, more than twice in the past 40 years!
At least 2 differently plumaged Summer Tanagers are being found in Central Park, and the species ought to be watched for really anywhere this month, as they can show in practically any habitats on passage. Scarlet Tanagers are passing as expected in higher numbers and including many of both sexes of that species. Many more Indigo Buntings also were passing thru, and this is also an occasional but rather scarce breeder and potential lingerer in this county. The 2 breeding species of Oriole, Orchard in modest numbers, and Baltimore Orioles in fairly good numbers have each been on territories already here, with still more likely to come in and on passage. Rose-breasted Grosbeak, yet another songbird with a possibility of breeding in, perhaps, the northern parks of Manhattan island, have been passing for weeks, and still more will be likely to come in and pass through.
Some of the later-moving migrant thrush species are starting to pass through, these including some definitive Gray-cheeked Thrushes, of which a few have sung, and-or called. More of Swainsons Thrush, Veery and the other Catharus-genus thrushes we expect are also passing thru, while some Wood Thrushes are on potential territories and ought not to be disturbed in areas they may try to nest. The potential for arrivals of Bicknells Thrush exist in coming days-weeks, and on passage, attention should be paid to any possible vocalizations, and if possible those sounds recorded while such a thrush is being seen. Many of the Hermit Thrushes here have moved on, but some can often still be seen into mid or late May, and very rarely later still in this county.
One of the anticipated migratory American warbler species that we see each May has begun to arrive, in very low numbers thus far, Mourning Warbler, which in the first appearances at least, are often best found by vocalizing birds betraying their presence. These may not always be on the ground, although that, or in low dense cover, is the usual way of finding them here as they pass through. This warbler species is not really rare as a migrant here, simply skulking and can be often overlooked if coming along with so many other neotropical -wintering migrants in the month of May. As this species was just arriving, there were also still some Pine Warblers passing thru here, as well as many many more of the migrant warblers. At least one male Mourning Warbler was in Central Parks southern edges at first-light on Wed, May 8th. A great many other warblers also continue into Wednesday for the county. Now that a few Mournings are showing, all of the many anticipated and expected spring warbler on passages have at least shown up, in this county, with certainly a vast many more individuals of many species still to come thru, and including many of the female birds in addition to some further males of most of those many species.
A hen Wild Turkey was a very strange sight in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, May 7 and 8th. What brought that bird in to the midst of midtown is not known, as far as anyone has told. This turkey was seen by many, including by multiple birders, and was ongoing for Wed., May 8th - early morning by 280 Park Ave. near 49th St., a business locality, thus not giving private residential address info - this in very busy midtown Manhattan. Still more observers of this very-odd-location wanderer.
More reports in due course, as much migration will be at-or-near peak in this area soon.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore,
manhattan
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Date: 5/7/24 5:59 am From: Andrew Block <ablock22168...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Are the Golden winged warblers back
Just wondering if anyone knows if the Golden winged warblers were back at ironwood road. Also does anyone know if mine road ever reopened. When I looked on Google maps there was a sign that said opened. Thanks.
Andrew Block Yonkers new York
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Date: 5/7/24 3:04 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, plus Central Park, NYC - Monday, May 6 - Black Tern, Grasshopper Sparrow, Summer Tanager, shorebirds, warblers, etc.
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Monday, May 6th -
A Black Tern is always a very rare and special sighting within New York County, and this latest sighting on Monday May 6th was by one of our many bird-walk guides and leaders who work with not-for-profit organizations, in this instance G. Willow, who works with the NYC Bird Alliance -formerly also known as the NYC Audubon org-. this tern sighting from Governors Island, and in concert with the expected and now-regular Common Terns, those latter-only also breeding on the island-edge in a viewable, but no-public-access pier area. Other tern species can be a possibility and this may be one of the better land-based locations of this county to seek any other species of terns - the other options also being to be on a boat, with a boat dedicated to bird-finding the ideal but rather-rare, in this county. The various ferries and tour-boats are a -poor-mans-pelagic- so to say, in this county. Also found ON Governors Island on Monday, 5-6, and not just as a fly-by, as a good-many Ibis sightings for N.Y. County can be, a singleton Glossy Ibis, which was photographed at a distance out of respect to the feeding bird, by M. Davis, that photo and associated report in eBird - with a Macaulay Library archive to hold the photos.
Purple Sandpipers to the tune of a dozen or so, at the shores of Governors Island were seen on Monday, May 6, and over on Randalls Island, among the shorebird sightings there were a duo of Lesser Yellowlegs in the Little Hell Gate marsh, although likely they moved on. That island, as for Governors and also certainly Manhattan island, had many, many more migrant and visitant and some breeding birds on Monday, for a very good overall migration which was widespread in the whole area of greater N.Y City and also far-beyond. Many locations with any appropriate habitat in N.Y. County were seeing some shorebirds on Monday, and amongst these, a good number of both Spotted and Solitary Sandpipers were around, some lingering at least all of the day, for many observers, such as in Central Park.
A Grasshopper Sparrow was found at Inwood Hill Park, and while a few photos may have been made with the available means, getting to a definitive-ID for that bird was a small-team-effort and is now confirmed as that, a nice find anywhere in the county, and for that northern-Manhattan park, thanks to B. Balliett and to others who added ID assistance for the initial find on May 4th. The Inwood Hill Park Grasshopper Sparrow was present again to May 6th and seen by many more observers and very nicely-photographed as well. - - This may have been just the 2nd of the year in the county for the species, after a great surprise-visit by one at Canal Park in lower Manhattan recently. It is a species that just-may occur a bit more widely than is thought to, and can, like some other of our shier sparrows, often evades being detected at all.
A female-plumaged Summer Tanager was lingering in the northern end of Central Park thru Monday. There also was a reported "Kentucky" warbler in that area, which will possibly have more details to come, if the report can be confirmed - that follows the photographed and well-described Kentucky Warbler that was seen by just a few in Tompkins Square Park, not long ago and which was a very good find for that park, which is well-watched by a good many area birders thru the seasons. The Summer Tanagers that have been seen in Central Park, first males and just-lately female birds, were each photographed by multiple observers.
At Central Park alone, at least 25 migratory American warbler species were present on Monday, May 6th and all 25+ of those warbler species were seen well by many observers, and many also well-photographed. Of the many species of warblers, quite common still were Myrtle a.k.a. Yellow-rumped with plenty of females of that species still moving, also common were Black-and-white Warblers with again many females also moving, and a number of other rather-numerous warbler species which included Black-throated Green, Yellow, and Ovenbird as well as Common Yellowthroat, in addition to some other warbler species in the high-multiples. Both Governors Island and Randalls Island had at least 15 different warbler spp on the day, and quite possibly more in total. A slightly-late Louisiana Waterthrush was well seen and photod, and videod, at Central Park on Monday, with the now-more-expected Northern Waterthrush in many locations, some of that latter waterthrush-species not right-by any water on the migrations here. There were -zero- birds of any type that were characterized as -early- sightings, a euphemism not used by any leaders for not-for-profit bird walks in N.Y. City, and also not used by most observers for any sightings.
Thanks to all of the many keen, quiet observers and photographers who are sharing their reports and many photos, in the ebird archives and alerts, and on the widely-utilized non-X alerting systems. For almost all of the sightings given as confirmed reliably, there are some ebird archives, and for rarer or more-unusual sightings, the Macaulay Library adds to their usefulness as well.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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Date: 5/6/24 6:21 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Monday, May 6, 2024, Sooty Shearwaters - New York Harbor
Monday, May 6, 2024
OBS: Deborah Allen
Sooty Shearwaters - New York Harbor
This afternoon two Sooty Shearwaters were quite close to the St. George Staten Island Ferry Terminal in Richmond County at 3:55 pm.
I also saw a lone Sooty Shearwater in the NY harbor from 4:32 to 4:33, and again from 4:57 to 4:59. These lone shearwaters appeared to be closer to Staten Island than to Manhattan or Governor's Island.
I did not see the American White Pelican this afternoon.
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Date: 5/6/24 8:25 am From: Kristin Ellington <krs10ellington...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] The Linnaean Society of New York Monthly Lecture: Tuesday, May 14th, at 7 p.m.
The Linnaean Society of New York welcomes you to our monthly meeting, lecture, and Q&A session on Tuesday, May 14th, at 7 p.m.
Our lectures are not only free and open to the public, but also designed to be accessible to all, hosted on Zoom, so you can participate from anywhere. Please register ahead of time to receive the Zoom link: https://www.linnaeannewyork.org/events/dr-gail-patricelli-may-2024/
This month’s featured speaker is Dr. Gail Patricelli, who will present her work in a lecture entitled Robots, Telemetry, and the Sex Lives of Wild Birds: Using Technology to Study Courtship and Conservation.
Animals use a dizzying array of sounds, smells, colors, dances, electrical fields, and seismic vibrations to convince each other to mate. These displays, like the song of a cricket or the train of a peacock, are like advertisements by the courting sex tuned to the preferences of the courted sex. But courtship in many species involves more than just advertisements; it also involves negotiation between males and females. Therefore, in addition to elaborate displays, success in courtship may require tactics and social skills. These skills may include, for example, the ability to gather information and adjust courtship behavior in response to the partner’s signals and to the marketplace of other males and females. Dr. Patricelli will discuss her lab’s research on Greater Sage-Grouse, in which they use robotic females to investigate courtship interactions between the sexes and the way habitat structure can affect the flow of information among individuals on the lek breeding grounds. She will also discuss her lab’s ongoing research on how foraging behaviors affect courtship displays in sage-grouse and how this basic science has informed her lab’s research into human impacts on breeding activities.
Gail Patricelli is a professor in the Department of Evolution and Ecology and chair of the Animal Behavior Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis. She received her Bachelor’s degree in biology and art from Whitman College and her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology. Professor Patricelli and members of her lab study the evolution of elaborate courtship behaviors in birds and the impacts of human activities, especially noise pollution, on bird communication, breeding behaviors, and reproductive success. Much of the research in the Patricelli lab addresses sexual selection and the breeding ecology of a species of conservation concern, the Greater Sage-grouse. The lab adapts technology such as biomimetic robotics, microphone arrays, acoustic monitoring, and remote telemetry to study wild populations of sage-grouse and other bird species.
Thank you!
Kristin Ellington
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The Linnaean Society of New York
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Date: 5/6/24 4:07 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC -Sunday 5/5- Am.Wh. Pelican, Prothonotary Warbler, Glossy Ibis, Purple SP's, many more birds...
New York County -in N.Y. City- including Governors and Randalls and Manhattan island as well as Roosevelt Island, and some of the adjacent waters such as in N.Y. Harbor, and other waters, and also some of the skies above and adjacent-to the county -
Cinco de Mayo - Sunday, May 5 -
While a bit drizzly later in the day, and modestly cooler than a typical Cinco-de-Mayo will be in this area, it was still a very bird-y day all around, with many lingering migrants and uncommon species - and at least a few surprises, for some exploring birders.
The lingering American White Pelican was again seen from a variety of vantage points as it moved around the New York harbor area, often being spotted from Governors Island in N.Y. County, even if the pelican itself may have been off in a few other counties waters, or even in New Jersey waters at times on Sunday, just as with prior days of this unusual visitors stay in the harbor area. There are also sightings from ferries and other boats from a variety of locations in the harbor, as well as by some, with luck or perseverance, from Manhattan, with a scope generally best for most of the observing, or using high-powered optics of some sort.
Over at Randalls Island for Sunday morning, a group of 4 keen watchers and devotees of that islands birds, found among many migratory and semi-resident species, a Prothonotary Warbler, this one in female plumage with her olive-y upper back etc., thus not the individual male Prothonotary which had been seen by many in Central Park, Manhattan but some days prior. This female Prothonotary was still in the area of the Waters Edge gardens at Randalls Island later in the day in drizzly weather too, a garden section which overlooks East Harlem across the western part of the East River or lower Harlem river estuaries. That garden area, and an adjacent very small light woods, can sometimes be attractive to and productive for migrants, especially passerine types, at some times in migration seasons and even well-outside of the peak-weeks of the year. These areas on the far-west edges of Randalls are more or less across from E. 106th to E. 112th Sts. of Manhattan island, and are south of the Little Hell Gate saltmarsh site in the western part of Randalls Island, while north of the foot-bridge connecting Randalls with Manhattan island.
A quartet of Glossy Ibis were also seen flying past Randalls Island Sunday morning, a very-uncommonly seen species for the county, and yet this not the first sighting of this year in N.Y. County, as it turned out that a visiting Brazilian birder -and a few others- had noted a single Glossy Ibis pass by Central Park, on May 2nd. This species is likely at-least slightly more regular in passage by the county than is generally seen, reported, or widely-realized, and will be most-likely spotted by those with keen eyes-to-the-skies wherever one may be, and especially in the mid-spring. There are some non-ancient records for Glossy Ibis -IN- Central Park, which at the times of those occurrences drew many to seek, however those were as-nothing for observer-numbers in comparison to today with todays insta-alerts and simply the availability of fast communications of this modern era. Ibis of other species also have been reported from N.Y. County, and that has included even White, which in breeding plumage is a tough bird not to see and ID correctly if seen at any close range.
The month of May is a good time to watch for nearly any types of birds, as the possibilities widen for most of the month. Fly-overs of many sorts can and do occur - the well-prepared and quick thinking observer may be likeliest to have some luck in this category of watching... being out at any and all hours, and sometimes in what seem odd locations, may also give some impetus. It also can be a matter of luck, but an old adage says - for birders, too - we can help to make good luck more-likely. Eyes, or at least an eye, to the skies. Sundays Glossy Ibis group were perhaps the first of the year to be -photo-documented- in N.Y. County... the species overall, as expected around here, has had widespread arrival in the wider region in recent days.
A very good variety of other birds were also found on and around Randalls Island on Sunday, many lingering all thru that day there.
Also showing some nice lingering species was Governors Island, in addition to White Pelican watching, with still very good numbers of Purple Sandpipers there at the rocky shores and with a bit of close watching by seekers there, up to 18 individuals seen at times in one group -and perhaps even more- of the Purples seen on Sunday on Governors Island. This is still the one best location in the county, over time, for observation of that rock-loving long-staying winter to spring visiting migrant. The amount of habitat on Governors Island is greater than that for Purple SP at other N.Y. County locations, and the location on the harbor is also a factor. There were somewhat fewer migrants of all kinds from Governors by Sunday as compared with sightings on some earlier days of this month and at the end of April there. The more-northerly parts of the county have tended to be seeing a bit more, as the month of May continues, for migrant species and some of the returning breeding species. Of various many birds on Governors Island, lingering or late American Woodcock deserves some watching, in case of any ongoing stay. Killdeer are also regulars there, as are the usual Tree Swallows. Any reports of Purple Martin at Governors Island ought to be accompanied by photo or video documentation. At Randalls Island, it seems so far no Cliff Swallow has lingered in search of potential return-nesting for 2024, but it will be watched-for in coming weeks.
Even on a damper, cooler day on Sunday 5-5, with large numbers of observers, Central Park in Manhattan managed to tally at least 24 species of migratory American warblers, and as previously, the most numerous again were Myrtle - a.k.a. Yellow-rumped - Warblers, easily double-or-more the number of any other species of warbler in that park, or in almost any larger site of the county. There are increased numbers of female Myrtle Warblers passing lately, and this can account for some lower counts of the Myrtles by some observers. Of the Myrtle Warbler alone, far more than 100 individuals were present in early morning at Central Park on Sunday. Other warbler species varied in numbers from scores-of, to as few as very few individuals noted, park-wide, and by multiple observers - primarily in morning hours, when the weather was slightly less-damp. Central Park once-again managed a total of more than 100 species of wild, native birds on May 5th, as seen by collective great numbers of observers. A few late-lingering birds are of interest, the more so should any still be found into late May. Typically most of such species of wintering or lingering-migrant species will be moving-on in this month.
There was -no- reported re-find for Sunday of a male Cerulean Warbler for Manhattan, as seen in the Fort Tryon Park area on Saturday, May 4th. It was apparent that at least some migrants had moved-on, overnight for Sunday morning watchers, and-however, that some new arrivals had also shown for Sunday. Plenty of other migrants have been observed in many parts of northern Manhattan, including in a few larger parks there, with some devoted observers in most, the more-so in the month of May.
Thanks greatly to the many quiet keen observers of many birds of Sunday all around N.Y. County, and beyond, for a lot of good finds and for so many excellent reports.
Tom Fiore
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Date: 5/5/24 11:41 am From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Sun. May 5, 2024: Least Flycatcher, 14 wood Warbler Species
Central Park NYC
Sunday May 5, 2024
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights on a cool and overcast morning: Great Crested and Least Flycatchers, 14 wood Warbler Species including Worm-eating, Nashville, and Cape May Warblers, Scarlet Tanager.
Canada Goose - 6
Mallard - 3
Mourning Dove - 40-50
Herring Gull - 4 or 5 flyovers
Great Egret - 1 Turtle pond
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4
Downy Woodpecker - 3
Northern Flicker - 4
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Ramble
Least Flycatcher - 1 Lake north of Bow Bridge
Blue-headed Vireo - 3
Warbling Vireo - 2 Ramble
Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Ramble
Blue Jay - 6 or 7
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4
Cedar Waxwing - flock of 5
House Wren - 1 Shakespeare Garden
Gray Catbird - 10-15
Hermit Thrush - 2 or 3
Wood Thrush - 1 singing in the Ramble
American Robin - 40-50
House Finch - 3
White-throated Sparrow - 10-15
Eastern Towhee - 1 female in Ramble (Edmund Berry)
Baltimore Oriole - 5
Red-winged Blackbird - 6
Common Grackle - 9-12
Ovenbird - 6
Worm-eating Warbler - 1 Maintenance Field
Black-and-white Warbler - 7
Nashville Warbler - 2 Ramble
Common Yellowthroat - 2 south side of Turtle Pond
American Redstart - 1 male Summer House
Cape May Warbler - 1 east of Humming Tombstone
Northern Parula - 15-20
Magnolia Warbler - 3
Yellow Warbler - 2 males Belvedere Overlook
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 Ramble
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 male Summer House
Palm Warbler - 1 "Yellow" south side of Turtle Pond
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 6-8
Scarlet Tanager - 1 male Belvedere Castle
Northern Cardinal - 6-8
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Date: 5/5/24 3:50 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC - Sat., May 4th- Summer Tanager, 28+ warbler spp, Bobolinks, E. Bluebird, many more migrants, etc.
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City -
Saturday, May 4th -
A female-plumaged Summer Tanager was located in the far-north woods of the park on Saturday morning, continuing for multiple observers thru the day. Thanks to all there for helping some keep up with this bird, in the increasingly leafy environs.
Also seen early Saturday, just a bit west, by a separate group of observers, was an Eastern Bluebird, a species which is less regular in the month of May here, and when found at all, often by very keen observers, perhaps familiar with the sometimes subtle call of a passage migrant.
At least 3, and very likely somewhat more Bobolinks came thru the park in earliest hour, probably not lingering as they were on the move when noticed at first light, by calls as well as by spring-male plumage. Also seen, again were a modest number of E. Kingbirds moving past, those additional to the few having started to show in the park on probable territory, as is so for a wide number of migrant birds which arrived in recent days or weeks.
The 28 migratory American warbler species found on the day in Central Park included multiples of almost every species, perhaps including the Orange-crowned reliably seen by independent observers on the day, and for such warblers as Blue-winged, Cape May, Tennessee, Wilsons, Worm-eating, Bay-breasted, Prairie, Chestnut-sided, and all others of total of 27 besides the one Orange-crowned, there were more than 5 individuals at minimum, and for many of the commonest species on the day, were represented by 15 to more than 40 of their specIes for the day in just this one park. Still the most common were Myrtle, also still referred to as Yellow-rumped, of all the warbler spp, and also quite numerous were Magnolia, Ovenbird, and Common Yellowthroat as well, with American Redstart increased yet-again. The night prior DID feature a nice migration even if not one of the most impressive of this season so far, in this area or for this county specifically.
Further, some parks, in particular in early morning, may have had higher numbers of total warblers, although diversity was found nearly highest from Central Park, with thanks to the hundreds of quiet and keen watchers out for all of Saturday in all sectors of that park. For the county, a tally of at least 30 warbler species was made as the singing male Cerulean Warbler in the Cabrini Woods of northern Manhattan added to that count, with 1 further species also noted for the day. In Central, even Pine Warbler was seen reliably to give still more diversity in the American warblers found on the day.
The lately-lingering Buffleheads continued at the Central Park reservoir, and the pair of Green-winged Teal also lingered on at The Pool, of Centrals n-w sector. Wood Duck also continued for the long long stay, the drake which seems to be fond of some mallards.
More than 100 species of wild, native birds were found on Saturday at Central Park alone, seen by far, far more than that number of observers. The count of species for all of Manhattan was higher, and a good bit higher still for all of the county. One of the additional highlights from Governors Island again were a nice flock of Purple Sandpipers at the rocky shores there, again this also within New York County, for Saturday, 5-4.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
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Date: 5/5/24 3:47 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - Sat., May 4th- Ft. Tryon Pk. area Cerulean Warbler, Am.Wh.Pelican, NY Harbor; other recent county arrivals
New York County -in N.Y. City- including in this report, Manhattan and Governors Island and the waters adjacent. Saturday, May 4th -
A singing male CERULEAN Warbler is likely the first of spring -for the county- to be fully documented this year, with thanks to Jack Woodhull via M. Waldron, the warbler in the so-called Cabrini Woods which is part of Fort Tryon Parks woods, south of the main south gate of the park and alongside Cabrini Blvd. - access is both along the east edge of the woods simply from the sidewalk there, however an inside-the-park runs into that woods from the main park gate just south of the Heather Garden of Fort Tryon Park. It is fairly likely that this warbler will linger in that general area for at least all of Saturday. Plenty of other migrants are in the area, including multiple species of migrant warblers. For the Cerulean, listen carefully as this warbler was singing well, and try the areas south of the southernmost entry gate to Fort Tryon Park on the paths. It is a safe area to walk in daytime, and other birders have been on-scene.
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N.B., we are in the high-peak time for golden-winged warbler passage, and that species has been arriving in nearby breeding areas of southeastern NY state, and being seen in some migration hotspots as well, lately.
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An American White PELICAN was continuing to range over the N.Y. Harbor waters on Saturday, again being seen from the southern tip of Manhattan island and the west-southwest and hilltop on Governors Island as of Sat. morning and again with multiple observers. This individual Pelican may be in waters of either New Jersey or NY state, and in up to 4 different counties of those 2 states, at times as has been since first noticed and widely-reported by eve. of May 2nd. A scope is useful if seeking this pelican for the best viewing. Some Forsters Terns have been reported off in the harbor area, while at Governors Island itself, Common Terns are growing in number at the well-watched colony on that island, which is on one of the piers that is closed to public-entry but viewable from nearby. Other tern species ought to be watched-for as the season for many is upon us and more of various tern species will be arriving to the region on passage and-or some as local-breeders.
Elsewhere all around N.Y. County, some new and-or recent arrivals have included Olive-sided Flycatcher, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Acadian and poss. other Empidonax-genus, besides now-regular Least Flycatchers, Gray-cheeked type Catharus-genus thrush, which is rather-early for this area, and needs photo and audio documentation in order to distinguish certain species and forms... also new to the county this spring, Bobolink, and a few more species -which will be noted in any later reports. The species noted in this paragraph were all found in Central Park in Manhattan however any may also be showing on and in other islands and locations of the county as well.
Good birding to all, and thanks in particular to the keen birders of the Inwood neighborhood, in northern Manhattan, as well as to Governors Island stalwarts, and to many other birders.
Tom Fiore
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Date: 5/4/24 3:58 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC, Sat. May 4, 2024: 17 Wood Warbler Species incl. Orange-crowned, Worm-eating, and Cape May Warblers
Central Park, NYC
Saturday May 4, 2024
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob
Highlights: Common Loon, 4 Species of Vireos including Yellow-throated Vireo, Veery, Wood Thrush, 17 Wood Warbler Species including Orange-crowned, Worm-eating, and Cape May Warblers, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak.
Canada Goose - 16 (4 nests)
Gadwall - pair continues at the Reservoir
Mallard - 13
Bufflehead - 3
Mourning Dove - 30-40
Herring Gull - 20-30
Great Black-backed Gull - 3
Common Loon - 2 continue Reservoir
Double-crested Cormorant - around 20
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 immature flying from the Point to the Oven
Turkey Vulture - 1 flyover
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 flyover
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4
Downy Woodpecker - pair at Bow Bridge
Northern Flicker - 4 or 5
Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 Weather Station
Blue-headed Vireo - 3
Warbling Vireo - 1 Weather Station
Red-eyed Vireo - 2 or 3
Blue Jay - 4 or 5
Barn Swallow - 2 north end Reservoir (Deb - early)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 or 4
Cedar Waxwing - 1 east of Azalea Pond
House Wren - 1 south side Turtle Pond
Veery - 1 Ramble
Hermit Thrush - 3 or 4
Wood Thrush - 2 or 3 Ramble
American Robin - 50-60
Chipping Sparrow - 1 Ramble
White-throated Sparrow - 10-15
Song Sparrow - 4
Eastern Towhee - 3
Baltimore Oriole - 3 or 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 3 or 4
Common Grackle - 8-10
Ovenbird - 4 or 5
Worm-eating Warbler - 1 Maintenance field
Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Oven, Ramble)
Black-and-white Warbler - 5 or 6
Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 Maintenance Field
Nashville Warbler - 1 Boathouse Hill
Common Yellowthroat - 1 male south side Turtle Pond
Cape May Warbler - 2 (Gill Overlook, Tupelo Field)
Northern Parula - 10-15
Magnolia Warbler - 2 males Ramble
Yellow Warbler - 2 or 3
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 Azalea Pond (Ryan Serio)
Blackpoll Warbler - 1 male Ramble
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 male Weather Station Circle
Palm Warbler - 2 "Yellow" south side Turtle Pond
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4 or 5
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 male Gill Overlook
Scarlet Tanager - 1 female south side Turtle Pond (Bob - early)
Northern Cardinal - 4 or 5
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 or 4
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Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, May 3, 2024 at
11:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, AMERICAN WHITE
PELICAN, THICK-BILLED MURRE, RED CROSSBILL, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW,
PROTHONOTARY, YELLOW-THROATED and KENTUCKY WARBLERS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE
GROSBEAK and more, including an extralimital NEOTROPIC CORMORANT. |
With spring migration starting to accelerate, among the expected arrivals
there is often a surprise or two. Unfortunately, one of these, a
SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, was seen only very briefly in northern Westchester
County, first appearing over Yorktown Heights late Tuesday afternoon and
then again Wednesday morning moving east just south of Croton Falls.
Somewhat more accommodating has been an AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN spotted
Thursday in Upper New York Bay, where it was drifting and flying between
Governors Island and the New Jersey side of the Bay; it continued visiting
both States today. Taking a trip on the Staten Island ferry proved
successful for some, as did scanning from The Battery in lower Manhattan or
from appropriate Brooklyn sites providing views of the Bay. It was last
seen heading into New Jersey waters this evening.
And on a slightly more extralimital note, a NEOTROPIC CORMORANT in
breeding. plumage was spotted yesterday afternoon on the Hudson River up in
Newburgh, Orange County. It was at the Ferry terminal, one of the sites
this species has been visiting the last couple of years, but there were no
reports today.
A THICK-BILLED MURRE, perhaps not an entirely happy individual, was present
Tuesday and Wednesday off the Marina at Wantagh Park just west of the
Wantagh Parkway, but it has not been reported since.
A CASPIAN TERN was spotted from Prospect Park Lake on Monday, and another
first noted at Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge in Yaphank last Saturday
was still in that area yesterday. An AMERICAN BITTERN was also spotted
from Prospect Park Lake Monday.
A PILEATED WOODPECKER on Governors Island last weekend was certainly
unusual there, while RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continue at Croton Point Park
and along the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond in Manorville, with another at
Ridgewood Reservoir in Queens Sunday.
A RED CROSSBILL was also recorded flying over the Paumanok Trail on
Thursday, and a few PINE SISKINS and PURPLE FINCHES continue to move
through.|
A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW has been present at Strawberry Fields in Central
Park Thursday and today, and a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was found in Green-Wood
Cemetery today.
PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS were present in Central Park Monday and Tuesday, in
Prospect Park Monday, and at Brooklyn Bridge Park Tuesday and Wednesday,
and several YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS included singles during the week in
Central, Prospect, Alley, Inwood Hill and Forest Parks, Oakland Lake and
Green-Wood Cemetery, as well as continuing at the Bayard Cutting
Arboretum. KENTUCKY WARBLERS were reported from Tompkins Square Park
Monday and at a Brooklyn Community Garden at East 4th Street Wednesday,
while other arriving WARBLERS have included BAY-BREASTED, BLACKBURNIAN,
BLACKPOLL, CANADA and WILSON'S, plus an ORANGE-CROWNED at Hempstead Lake
State Park today.
SUMMER TANAGERS were reported again this week from Central and Prospect
Parks, Green-Wood Cemetery and Jones Beach West End, while six reports of
BLUE GROSBEAK included. birds at Fort Tryon, Owl’s Head and Fort Greene
Parks, up in North Salem in Westchester and out in Calverton.
Among recent arrivals have been EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL, LEAST BITTERN,
SWAINSON'S THRUSH and NELSON'S and LINCOLN SPARROWS.
To phone in reports call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922.
This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the
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Date: 5/3/24 8:53 pm From: Ben Cacace <bcacace...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] eBird.org Shared Location - Village View (East 2nd-6th; 1st Ave.-Ave. A)
A marker was created for '*Village View (East 2nd-6th; 1st Ave.-Ave. A)*'
in New York County. The hotspot should be available within 12 hours.
- This hotspot (or the '*East Village (B'way-E. River; 14th-Houston St.)*'
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Date: 5/3/24 3:36 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Fri. May 3, 2024: Solitary Sandpiper, Osprey, Bald Eagle, Clay-colored Sparrow, Warblers
Central Park NYC
Friday May 3, 2024
OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Green-winged Teal, Osprey, Bald Eagle, Clay-colored Sparrow, Rusty Blackbird, Warblers including Blackpoll and Black-throated Green Warblers.
Canada Goose - 4 including pair nesting at Harlem Meer
Gadwall - pair continues at the Pool
Mallard - 10
Green-winged Teal - pair continues at the Pool
Mourning Dove - a dozen
Chimney Swift - 2
Solitary Sandpiper - 1 at the Pool
Herring Gull - several flyovers
Double-crested Cormorant - a few flyovers
Great Egret - 5 or 6 flyovers, one perched at the Meer
Osprey - 1 fishing at the Harlem Meer at around 8am
Bald Eagle - 1 flyover 4th-year bird with head and tail not completely white
Red-tailed Hawk - 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker - heard
Northern Flicker - 3
Blue-headed Vireo - 1 High Meadow
Warbling Vireo - 1 Green Bench (Scott Brevda)
Blue Jay - 5 or 6
American Crow - 1 flyover
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 8
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 or 2 at the Loch (Chris)
House Wren - heard in 4 locations
Gray Catbird - 5 or 6
Hermit Thrush - 1 Children's Glade
American Robin - 20-30
House Finch - 5
American Goldfinch - 2 at the Loch
Chipping Sparrow - 7
Clay-colored Sparrow - 1 continued at Strawberry Fields
Field Sparrow - 1 Green Bench (Scott Brevda)
White-throated Sparrow - 20-25
Swamp Sparrow - 1 at the Loch
Eastern Towhee - 1 male North Woods
Baltimore Oriole - 3 or 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 8
Rusty Blackbird - 1 at the Pool
Common Grackle - 4
Ovenbird - 3
Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 at the Pool
Northern Waterthrush - 3 (Caren Jahre)
Black-and-white Warbler - 6 or 7
Common Yellowthroat - 1 female at the Pool (Anindya Seng)
American Redstart - 1 High Meadow
Northern Parula - 10-12
Yellow Warbler - 1 High Meadow (Caren Jahre)
Blackpoll Warbler - 1 male High Meadow
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 10-15
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 male High Meadow
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Date: 5/3/24 2:59 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - Thurs-Fri., May 2 & 3 - Am. Wh. PELICAN, Blue Grosbeak, Y-thr. Warbler, Clay-col. Sparrow, shorebirds, etc.
Manhattan, and New York County, in N.Y. City -
Thursday, May 2nd,
and Friday, May 3 -
Highlights include AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, and Clay-colored Sparrow both lingering for FRIDAY, May 3rd, as well as Blue Grosbeak, Yellow-throated Warbler and at least 24 more warbler species and many many more migrants as seen on Thursday, May 2nd...
With what may well be a first photo-documented record of the species in the county, an American White Pelican was a slightly-unexpected -!!- visitor to the New York harbor on May 2nd, as seen and reported by Wes Thompson, a Texas birder taking the fast Staten Island ferry late in the day on Thursdsay, across the harbor and then reporting via eBird, and at that point realizing how rare for this county and more-generally, for this city, this sighting is. Followed up on by a party of intrepid N.Y. County resident birders on Friday morning, the American White Pelican was seen and well-photographed very early on Friday May 3rd, thanks to that initial find and reporting via eBird from May 2nd. While moving from N.Y. County waters around into other counties, perhaps at times also into New Jersey waters as they are nearby at New York Harbor, this huge and distinctive species was clearly seen from points in New York County, including by multiple observers at The Battery in the southern edge of Manhattan island, which has views of most of the upper harbor and with scopes and large lenses being put to good use. N.B., there have been past -years-ago- reports of this species flying high, soaring over the island of Manhattan, noted by careful and experienced observers in the past but, unfortunately not photo-documented and also not placed into historical sightings for archiving rarities such as this. Thus this may well be considered as a county-first record for May 2 -and 3rd- of this year. A species that has been seen elsewhere in N.Y. City, very well-documented and seen within this city, previously, by a great number of observers.
A Clay-colored Sparrow in nice adult-spring plumage was at the Strawberry Fields area of Central Park on Thursday, May 2, and again present there for FRIDAY, May 3rd, seen by over 100 observers for the day on Thursday and with alerts sent out by non-X bird-alert systems, and again for Friday as well as scores of reports, with photos-aplenty, in eBird and thus archived photos in the Macaulay Library. Several observers seem to have collaborated in finding this nice now-regular-but-rare sparrow on Thursday with at least one of the finders coming from Canada. This species of sparrow, once a real rarity has become a bit more regular and has shown in spring slightly more than used to, and certainly far more often in fall migrations, when it is now more-than-one a year annually. This coincides with the expanded-in-the-east range of this sparrow in recent decades, perhaps still expanding in numbers in some eastern states or provinces.
A spring-male Blue Grosbeak was seen at Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan - in the area of the heather garden there - on Thursday, May 2, and could well be lingering there.
A singing male Yellow-throated Warbler was seen also in northern Manhattan, but at Sherman Creek-Swindler Cove parks areas, off eastern Dyckman Street and partly just-north of that streets eastern terminus, these areas are along the upper Harlem river estuary. It is possible the warbler may linger in that area, with a chance it might also move up to the adjacent Highbridge Park just up-above to the west.
In Central Park alone, at least 25 species of migratory American warblers were found for the park on Thursday May 2nd, with far more than 100 observers on the day - the species have included still some of the earliest-arriving such as Pine and Palm and also Worm-eating and well-Hooded Warblers, and Louisiana and Northern Waterthrushes, as well as later-movers such as Blackpoll, Bay-breasted, Cape May, Tennessee, Wilsons, and Canada Warblers and so many more. Also -none- of the sightings from the vast numbers of observers were characterized as -early- being used as a euphemism. All of these many species were also well-photographed by many, many observers amongst the many-more total watchers, and with hundreds of reports put in eBird.
Some of the shorebirds continuing to be found included Lesser Yellowlegs and some Least Sandpipers, at the Inwood Hill Park mudflats, in northernmost Manhattan, seen on Thursday, 5-2. Also a flock of at-least 17 Purple Sandpipers was again found in the rocky shore areas of Governors Island which is a part of N.Y. County, immediately south of Manhattans southern tip, visited by a regular and fast ferry service. Other shorebirds have included Spotted and Solitary Sandpipers. There is a reliable report for American Oystercatcher on May 2, from the N.Y. Harbor, albeit possibly in-part also for New Jersey, which is west of the N.Y. County waters and islands. A Bonapartes Gull was again observed off Governors Islands in N.Y. County, for Thursday, May 2nd, with more photos, thanks to M.B. Kooper.
At least 5 species of Vireo were again found in the county - and all of those also within Central Park - White-eyed, Red-eyed, Yellow-throated, Warbling, and Blue-headed Vireos, for Thursday, May 2. The thrush species seen included Swainsons and Hermit and Wood Thrushes and Veery, all in fair to good numbers, in addition to near-ubiquitous American Robins. Flycatchers have included a great many E. Kingbirds, including diurnal movements of dozens of that species on May 2, as well as E. Phoebes continuing, and increased numbers of Great Crested Flycatchers and Least Flycatchers. We also have had reports of Acadian Flycatcher, E. Wood-Pewee, and Olive-sided Flycatcher, these 3 latter not-yet widely seen or reported here however. Sparrow diversity remained high, with many more of Lincolns Sparrow and White-crowned Sparrow having shown for many observers, in multiple locations in the county.
Continuing in Central Park on Friday, May 3rd were 2 Green-winged Teal at The Pool in that parks northwest sector, also Wood Duck continues at Central Park, and within the county were still some few Buffleheads and Ruddy Ducks among other miscellaneous waterfowl. Rusty Blackbirds were still in a few locations in the county for Thursday and Friday, May 2-3, including at Central Park in more than one area.
A vast number of additional species could be noted... we will leave it at the above, for now!
Good birding to all, with thanks to the many quiet, keen, active observers all around the county and the region,
Tom Fiore
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Date: 5/2/24 3:22 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Thu. May 2, 2024: Clay-colored Sparrow, Spotted Sandpiper, 17 Species of Wood Warblers, Indigo Bunting, Veery
Central Park NYC
Thursday May 2, 2024
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Spotted Sandpiper, Common Loon, Veery, Clay-colored Sparrow, 17 Species of Wood Warblers, Indigo Bunting.
Canada Goose - 14
Mallard - 8-10
American Black Duck - 2 (male and female) Reservoir (Deb - early)
Mourning Dove - 40-50
Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Reservoir (Bob - 6:30 am)
Herring Gull - 30-40
Great Black-backed Gull - 6
Common Loon - 2 (1 in breeding plumage) (Bob - early)
Double-crested Cormorant - 15-20
Great Egret - 1 Reservoir (Bob & Deb - early)
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 (immature at the Point, adult Lake)
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 flyover
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3
Downy Woodpecker - 1 male at the Point
Northern Flicker - 4 or 5
Warbling Vireo - 3 (pair and single)
Red-eyed Vireo 3 (pair and single)
Blue Jay - 6-8
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5 or 6
House Wren - 2 or 3
Veery - 1 north of the Oven (Xander Vitarelli)
Hermit Thrush - 4 or 5
Wood Thrush - 4 or 5
American Robin - 30-40
Chipping Sparrow - 1 Strawberry Fields (m.ob. and Deb - after lunch)
Clay-colored Sparrow - 1 Strawberry Fields (m.ob. and Deb - after lunch)
Field Sparrow - 1 Maintenance field
White-throated Sparrow - 25-30
Swamp Sparrow - 1 cut at the Point
Eastern Towhee - 3 females
Baltimore Oriole - 2 Ramble
Red-winged Blackbird - 4 or 5
Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 male top of the Oven
Common Grackle - 8-10
Ovenbird - 3 or 4
Northern Waterthrush - 3
Blue-winged Warbler - male Summer House
Black-and-white Warbler - 8-10 including some females
Nashville Warbler - 1 Gill Overlook (Bob - early)
Common Yellowthroat - 3
American Redstart - 2 males in the Ramble
Northern Parula - 15-20
Magnolia Warbler - 2 males in the Ramble
Yellow Warbler - 2 (1 male, 1 female) Ramble
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 male east of Azalea Pond (Annie Plum)
Blackpoll Warbler - 1 Ramble (Paul Curtis)
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 males
Palm Warbler - 1 "Yellow" south side of Turtle Pond
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 7-9
Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 or 3 males
Canada Warbler - 1 heard at the Oven (David Barrett)
Northern Cardinal - 3 or 4 males
Indigo Bunting - 1 male summer House (Dan Stevenson)
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Date: 5/2/24 10:04 am From: Jay Pitocchelli <jpitocch...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Request for assistance – song recordings of migrating Mourning Warblers
Request for assistance – song recordings of migrating Mourning Warblers
I am posting my annual opportunity to participate in a Citizens Science Project that involves recording migrating Mourning Warbler songs.I am trying to determine the nature of migratory pathways taken by different song populations of Mourning Warbler males during their spring migration.I am continuing to collect your recordings and plot them on a map of North America to determine if and where birds with different song types (regiolects) separate from each other during spring migration.The most current map of songs of migrants is at the web site below.
All you need is a Smartphone and a singing Mourning Warbler.You can send the recordings to my e-mail address (jpitocch AT anselm.edu).The web page link below describes the project and how to make recordings on your Smartphone in more detail.
Date: 5/2/24 5:25 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - Wed., May 1st - Grasshopper Sparrow, shorebirds, other migrants
New York County -in N.Y. City- including Governors Island, Randalls Island, Roosevelt Island, and last-but-not-least Manhattan island - and the adjacent waters and skies above -
Wednesday, May 1st -
A Grasshopper Sparrow was seen on 5-1, at the rather-small but productive Canal Park in lower Manhattan with photos by A. Evans in the Macaulay Library archive; this must be a 1st for that small park, and a very good find anywhere-anytime in all of N.Y. County. A few others had also observed this on May 1st. Perhaps the 10th species of native sparrow to be seen in this small park over the years, many of the discoveries over the years coming thanks to loyal-to-the-patch A. Evans, and also from some other observers.
A number of shorebirds have recently been moving and among those, uncommon in the county eve if annual there, have been Semipalmated Plover, 2 of which photo'd at the Sherman Creek park mudflats area, just n. of Swindler Cove Park in upper Manhattan along the Harlem river estuary; the two small plovers were seen in the morning, also seen flying out as tide came in. Photos, and the find of these were by area-birder M. Waldron.
Also found on May 1st, a good number of Purple Sandpipers again at the best-known site over recent years, on Governors Island, at its rocky shores - numbers up to 17 of the Purples as seen by R. Fleming and E. Leonardi. Also seen and photod at Governors on May 1st were Least and Spotted Sandpipers, more-typical and expected Killdeer, and a single photographed Bonapartes Gull, this latter bird seen in-flight. Common Terns were showing nice increases into the multi-dozens by May 1. Many other species, migrants and summer-breeders, and some resident, have been noted from Governors Island lately, including thru May 1st. N.B., zero of the reports out of this island or elsewhere by persons using only an acroynm -not anonymous, but acronym, for a name, will be noted at all in these reports to this list.]
On Tues., April 30, a single Semipalmated Sandpiper was found at the lagoon-mudflat area of Inwood Hill Park, also in northern Manhattan, indeed at the islands near-north tip, by D. Karlson, a regular birder of that park and these also reported later same day by other regulars there; this location like the Sherman Creek mudflat are probably Manhattan islands most reliable shorebird sites, in relative terms - N.Y. County has no Jamaica-Bay preserve -as found in Queens Co., NYC- and many shorebirds that are commonly seen elsewhere in the same city are decidedly uncommon to rare in this county. Very occasionally, unusual weather may put down shorebirds in some locations where not typically seen within the county, and it then is mostly-intrepid seekers and observers who first reap the shorebird-rewards...
Many species of migrants continued all around the county, on all of the 4 islands noted at top, with many observers continuing to find personal year-firsts and all manner of excellent sightings, in as many as -101- locations, actually far more than that, from the best-known parks, to smaller parks, gardens, and every other sort of green-space and patch of habitat, as well as flyover sightings, and for a few night-owls, the N.F.C. nocturnal flight calls, as well as the daytime experiences of migration.
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Incidentally, our Kirtlands-specialist was out birding for May 1st 2024, in the county, and of course we can all hope, however that warbler remains as a once-ever for the county and for good old Central Park - that was a most special and wholly unexpected find.
Good birding to all, with thanks to many, many keen and quiet observers all around the county and beyond.
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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Date: 5/1/24 2:10 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - to April 30th - Kentucky + Prothonotary, 30 add'l. spp. of warblers, etc.
New York County -in N.Y. City- including Manhattan, Governors Island, Randalls Island, and Roosevelt Island.
thru Tuesday, April 30th -
A Kentucky Warbler was found and then re-found at end-of-day on Monday, April 29th at Tompkins Square Park in lower-east Manhattan, which has a good many regular watchers at all seasons, esp. for migrations. This individual, seen and photographed in low light, was noted in eBird and thus the photos stored in the Macaulay Library archives, for that date. There is a chance that this bird was present for unknown days prior, as some of this species had arrived into the region on earlier days as well. Thanks to Loyan Beausoleil for the re-find and follow-up attempts, made with others on the 30th with no further re-find.
Also seen -and photographed- by a number of observers on Monday, 4-29 was a bright Prothonotary Warbler, at The Pool in Central Park, Manhattan - this may or may-not have been the same individual that vastly more observers came to view on a prior day, at a different location within that same park. There was apparently no re-find of a Prothonotary on April 30th in the county. A singing male Yellow-throated Warbler was still in Central Park into Monday, 4-29 although by that day, many birders were on to still-more-arriving migrant species-to-see, after many many hundreds of watchers had observed that individual Yellow-throated Warbler in prior days in that park. Thus, on just 1 day, April 29th, there were as many as 31 species of migratory American warblers on Manhattan island, and with at least 30 of those species having been found in Central Park alone. A lot of other sites in all of the county had remarkable migrant diversity - all of this notable for coming in the month of April, even if just-barely.
Here are all of those warbler species again, seen in Manhattan NYC for the one day, 4-29 -
Blue-winged Warbler, Tennessee Warbler, Orange-crowned Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Northern Parula, Yellow Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Cape May Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Myrtle -a.k.a. Yellow-rumped- Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, Pine Warbler, Prairie Warbler, Palm Warbler, Bay-breasted Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, American Redstart, Prothonotary Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler, Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush, Louisiana Waterthrush, Kentucky Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Hooded Warbler, Wilson's Warbler, and Canada Warbler.
It seems plausible that a Pileated Woodpecker which was recently found on Governors Island in N.Y. County, which island is just west of western Kings County-Brooklyn, is the same individual Pileated that showed - after this bird was no longer seen on Governors - at Fort Greene Park in northwest Brooklyn - a very rare sighting for that county. If photos - which were obtained from Governors Island, and then from Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, on same date, match up as to plumage characters, this seems all the more plausible as to where the huge woodpecker went next... and then - ? The dates referred to were -last- on April 28th.
Common Terns have - expectedly - started returning to Governors Island as of at least the last few days in April, and more may be anticipated. Close watching from that island or elsewhere in N.Y. County could reveal other tern species, but Common is the known breeding species at that site. In a sort of odds-and-ends category, there are a good many Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers still around - a very few of that species just may even linger into summer in this county, although NOT breeding here. There are also recent sightings of Golden-crowned Kinglet, likely all-gone from the county soon, and similarly some Slate-colored Juncos have lingered here into end of April, at least.
Many observers took note of the huge passage of White-throated Sparrow on recent days, in some locations this species was one of the most-numerous passerine migrant birds in the air and on the ground for some hours and for some sites. Well into the hundreds-of-thousands passed in some recent nights, and very high numbers could be found in almost all areas for a few days. Other sparrow species also were moving in nice numbers, which includes some about all cleared-out by now. As a reminder any presumed Fox Sparrow ought to be photographed or videod if possible, if seen here in May. Most will have moved off northwards by now, but we have had this form - indeed, we have had western forms show, in May, in this region, albeit rarely. We will very soon be finding the diversity of flycatchers to increase, with Empidonax as usual giving a bit more challenge on migration. Thus far the one species of Empidonax -genus- definitively passing thru have been Least Flycatcher, in rather modest numbers in this county.
Every park including pocket-parks, greenspace, many gardens, churchyards, empty lots, street trees, waterside areas whether park-space or not, rooftops, all sorts of viewing locations, have been providing watchers with a near-cornucopia of migrant birds in the last few days in this area. Many less-known, less-regularly-visited greenspaces will have had tremendous migration, good to excellent species-diversity, in the peak days of migrations and will continue to in high-density migration passages in this month.
More to report on in coming days. Thanks to all of many keen and quiet observers all around the county and beyond,
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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Date: 4/30/24 3:52 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - Monday, 4/29 - great migrations (all our thru region)
New York County -in N.Y. City- including Manhattan, Randalls Island, and Governors Island
Monday, April 29th -
A widespread migration push occurred in the night of April 28th into April 29th in the mid-Atlantic to northeastern region of the U.S. and the N.Y. City area certainly had its share of that fresh passage and arrival of birds. Many species which overwinter in the neotropical regions of the hemisphere came along in good to very good numbers, and many species also reached far, far beyond the local area, on passage and in arrivals noted from multiple eastern states. In some areas, there may be have been modest or even good fallout-type of conditions on the early morning of April 29th, with, in some areas, some light fog in the late-late-night to the morning of Monday, 4-29. The good migrations are continuing as well with the last day of April likely to show yet-more in fine passage and stop-in of these vast numbers of so many birds on the move.
As just one indicator, New York County on Monday had at least 29 species of migratory American warblers show in all of the county, and at just one large park of Manhattan island -Central Park- at least 28 of those warbler species were found, and those Central Park sightings are listed below -
In addition to the Blue-winged Warblers with standard appearances, there are some birds showing characters of hybridization with Golden-winged -crossed with Blue-winged- and these may have some odd songs, also may be mixed-batch plumages that do not exactly-equal what is in a field guide, app, or standard photos from guides. The hybrids of these aforementioned warblers are a lot more regular on migration passage than was once seen in this area, matching to some extent the increases of hybrid-types of these closely-related species, more generally.
Blue-winged Warbler - multiple, increased here just overnight from Sunday into Monday, also seen at other sites.
Tennessee Warbler - multiple, some are detected exclusively by song in spring around here.
Nashville Warbler - multiple, and including some females as well as singing males.
Northern Parula - VERY many, and also seen in numbers in many other locations in the county.
Yellow Warbler - many, and also seen in numbers in many other locations in the county.
Chestnut-sided Warbler still modest numbers, but increased from Sunday to Monday here.
Magnolia Warbler - still modest numbers, but increased from Sunday to Monday here.
Cape May Warbler - modest numbers and all known-of were singing males for Monday.
Black-throated Blue Warbler - many, and also seen in numbers in many other locations in the county.
Myrtle -Yellow-rumped- Warbler - a good morning-flight of this species, into the thousands for all of county, and very good numbers recorded all day for some locations in the county.
Black-throated Green Warbler - many, and also seen in numbers in many other locations in the county.
Blackburnian Warbler - multiple, and already including some females as well as males.
Yellow-throated Warbler - this standout species remained at Central Park as for recent days, still singing a lot.
Pine Warbler - in the multiple, with still some males passing and a good number of drab and less-drab females or 1st-spring individuals.
Prairie Warbler - many-multiple, in a good number of sites in the county.
Palm Warbler - many-multiple, in a good number of sites in the county.
Bay-breasted Warbler - probably first-of-spring in the county, a few showed in at least 2 locations in Central Park.
Blackpoll Warbler - no longer a rare find at end of April, a very few came in as seen at Central Park and Riverside Park northern end.
Black-and-white Warbler - many, and also seen in numbers in many other locations in the county.
American Redstart - many-multiple, in a good number of sites in the county.
Worm-eating Warbler - multiple at least for several parks.
Ovenbird - many, and also seen in numbers in many other locations in the county.
Northern Waterthrush - many-multiple, in a good number of sites in the county. N.B., on migrations, this species will sometimes appear nearly anywhere, and in big-migration passages, they may show in very unexpected urban locales. Of course these usually will not linger long in habitat that is truly unsuitable, but water seems less-required on passage stops than for the following, less-common overall waterthrush species.
Louisiana Waterthrush - a good late-ish push of this species, some non-singing perhaps females, and seen in multiple locations that included at least a few sites where this species would be unexpected.
Common Yellowthroat - many-multiple, in a good number of sites in the county - females are also increasing.
Hooded Warbler - multiple at least for several parks and some females are showing in multiple sites as well.
Wilson's Warbler - perhaps the first-of-spring arrivals, not many just yet.
Canada Warbler - slight increase just overnight, from Sunday into Monday and with a fair number singing well.
A bit of the good shorebird movement came thru Manhattan and a few species stopped off at least for a while, including both Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs, as well as Least Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, Wilsons Snipe and even a few newly-passing American Woodcock. The Killdeer sightings from some sites in the county were from locations where they are fairly-regular. Purple Sandpiper was again found off the shoreline of Governors Island.
In this county, the day may have also been termed Monday-of-the-Marsh Wrens, as a good many of that species came in and were seen in at least 5 very-separated sites of N.Y. County, with at least several on Manhattan, and also occurring on Randalls, Governors, and Roosevelt Islands, each of which is fairly near to Manhattan island. At Central Park alone, there were multiples of this species on the day, a bit uncommon for such numbers in a single day in this county, although very much an annually-seen migrant.
Also showing a bit of an increase were Yellow-billed Cuckoos, which were also found in other locations outside of both Central Park, and outside of New York County. Nice increases were seen in these other mainly neotropical-wintering migrant birds - Green Heron, Chimney Swift, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Laughing Gull, Eastern Kingbird, Least Flycatcher, Great Crested Flycatcher, Yellow-throated Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, Warbling Vireo, Veery -modest increase-, Swainsons Thrush -also modest increase-, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, Orchard Oriole, Baltimore Oriole, and at least a few others just-now-increased of various migratory species.
Some other sightings, but maybe not as migratory or not-at-all, were of ongoing finds of Monk Parakeets with some nesting in the county, and of nesting species, the Ravens that are doing so, in at least a few known locations here. - as mentioned previously, Monk Parakeet is an accepted locally-occurring breeding species, well-established in parts of the wider NYC area, in more than one state.
Among the many migratory species also noted -besides the many listed above- on the day were - Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Black Vulture, Turkey Vulture, Canada Goose, Atlantic Brant, Wood Duck, Gadwall, American Black Duck, Green-winged Teal -of these, a pair were still lingering on at The Pool in Central Park-, Bufflehead, Red-breasted Merganser, Osprey, Bald Eagle, Northern Harrier, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cooper's Hawk, Broad-winged Hawk, American Kestrel, Belted Kingfisher, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Yellow-shafted Flicker, Eastern Phoebe, Blue Jay, Fish Crow, Tree Swallow, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Bank Swallow, Barn Swallow, Red-breasted Nuthatch, House Wren, Winter Wren, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Hermit Thrush, Wood Thrush, American Robin, Gray Catbird, Brown Thrasher, Cedar Waxwing, Eastern Towhee, Chipping Sparrow, Field Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Lincoln's Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Slate-colored Junco, Red-winged Blackbird, Rusty Blackbird, Common Grackle, Brown-headed Cowbird, Purple Finch, American Goldfinch, and certainly some additional species! - the full listings are not meant to cover all of the species noted in the county, just a large sampling of the days sightings.
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Also migrating to some extent were some butterfly species, probably most-notably in the area, American Lady as well as Red Admiral butterflies, and also smaller numbers of some other spring-migrating butterfly species, which are all a bit less well-known as migrators, relative to the famed Monarch butterfly.
Trees, shrubs, and many other plants are all leafing out or showing leaf-buds in such rapid progression, along with flowering having taken place or starting to, many ahead of the schedules seen in past decades, and all of these contributing to increased amounts of arthropod emergences and activity, which also equals far more food for hungry migratory birds. This rapidly increased leaf-out also means a bit more work by even the keenest observers, for good viewing of some of the more-arboreal or skulking species of arriving and passing migrant birds. All-good for the birds themselves, generally!
Good birding to all, with thanks to the many-diverse reporter-observers of so much of the recent migrations.
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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Date: 4/29/24 8:17 pm From: Debbie Becker <birdingaroundnyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park - Turtle Pond
Spring migration is on! Observed today on the south side of Turtle Pond in Central Park.
Black and white warbler
Nashville warbler
Black throated blue warbler
Black throated green warbler
Palm warbler
Yellow rumped warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow warbler
Common yellowthroat
Canada Warbler
Pine Warbler
Rose breasted Grosbeak
Baltimore Oriole
Scarlet tanager
Ruby crowned Kinglet
Gray Catbird
Red eyed vireo
Blue headed vireo
Yellow throated vireo
Hermit thrush
Wood thrush -Ramble
Red winged blackbird
American Robin
Great crested Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Grackle
Song sparrow
Swamp sparrow
Field sparrow -Ramble
Chipping sparrow -Ramble
White throated sparrow
Downy woodpecker
Red bellied woodpecker
Northern Flicker
House finch
American Goldfinch
Cardinal
Bluejay
Mourning Dove
Great Egret
Green heron
Cormorant
Mallard
Canada Goose
Date: 4/29/24 3:06 pm From: Alan Wells <alan.wells...> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] No sighting - Doodletown access?
Hi Allan and all NYSBIRDS recipients,
Based on conversations with PIPC staff, all Doodletown trails are closed until further notice for repairing storm damaged trails. PIPC is estimating that repairs will not be completed until at least early summer. They will notify the public when repairs are complete. Parking along Rte 202/9W was closed for a number of months. It is now open to parking for accessing the public areas of Iona Island. There is also a small hiker’s parking lot off Seven Lakes Dr, but even if open, the Doodletown trails themselves are all closed.
The staff we spoke to were well aware that birders would likely try to sneak into the closed area but emphasized that area would be patrolled and anyone caught in the area would be issued a ticket.
Sorry for the bad news, but hope this clarifies things.
Alan Wells
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> I have heard that access to the Doodletown trail from parking area on HWY 202 is closed. Is this true? Is entire trail closed? Is there alternative access? Any information appreciated.
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Date: 4/29/24 1:09 pm From: A W <antpitta8...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] No sighting - Doodletown access?
I have heard that access to the Doodletown trail from parking area on HWY 202 is closed. Is this true? Is entire trail closed? Is there alternative access? Any information appreciated.
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Date: 4/29/24 3:49 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC - Sunday, 4/28 - Summer Tanager, 25+ Warbler spp., many other migrants.
A surprise Pileated Woodpecker continuing at Governors Island was again noted and documented by multiple observers however, the last of such sightings for Sunday appeared to come only in earliest hour past noon, and not later in the day despite some seeking. There were again finds of Purple Sandpiper at Governors Island, up to 4 of that latter species, at a usual location on the rocky shore of that island, with at least several observers, photos. Governors Island overall saw some nice migration passage thru the weekend, with a variety of species - in mostly-modest numbers. Some of the migrants seen were new to the year at Governors Isalnd, which is within New York County and lies a bit south of the south tip of Manhattan island, and just west of western Brooklyn.
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Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City -
Sunday, April 28th -
At least one adult-spring-male Summer Tanager was seen and heard in the park by some experienced observers on Sunday, with Scarlet Tanagers in the multiple. Again noted amongst the flycatcher tribe were E. Kingbirds - seen reliably, Great Crested Flycatchers, Least Flycatchers, E. Phoebes, and possibly other flycatcher species - not heard vocalizing. Both Orchard and Baltimore Orioles were seen and heard in the multiple, as were Rose-breasted Grosbeaks. Indigo Buntings continued to be relatively uncommon so far, and with some having moved-on.
A minimum of 25 species of migratory American warblers were found in Central Park on Sunday, collectively seen by many hundreds of observers. New arrivals -apparently- by this weekend just-past were Blackburnian and Canada Warblers, and there were at least slightly more of a few recently-arrived species of warbler such as Tennessee, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, American Redstart, and Black-throated Blue Warblers. The lingering Yellow-throated Warbler which continued singing regularly was the least-common species seen for the weekend amongst all of these warblers on recent days here. Firstly below, a list of warblers known to have occurred for this Sunday, many also seen on Saturday as well. Following the listing of warblers, a list that includes many of the other species seen on Sunday at Central Park by many, many observers.
Blue-winged Warbler - multiple.
Tennessee Warbler - multiple.
Nashville Warbler - multiple.
Northern Parula - multiple.
Yellow Warbler - multiple.
Chestnut-sided Warbler - multiple.
Magnolia Warbler - multiple.
Cape May Warbler - multiple.
Black-throated Blue Warbler - multiple.
Myrtle -a.k.a. Yellow-rumped- Warbler - multiple, with many females and-or drabber individuals also pushing thru.
Black-throated Green Warbler - multiple.
Blackburnian Warbler - multiple, but not many as of Sunday.
Yellow-throated Warbler - the one singing bird moving and had-moved slightly, within the Ramble area of the Park, with vast numbers of observers.
Pine Warbler - multiple, lately with more and more females and-or drabber birds, but still some adult-spring males about.
Prairie Warbler - multiple.
Palm Warbler - multiple.
Black-and-white Warbler - many.
American Redstart - multiple.
Worm-eating Warbler - multiple.
Ovenbird - many.
Northern Waterthrush - multiple.
Louisiana Waterthrush - multiple, but the preceding waterthrush species now is the more-common of these.
Common Yellowthroat - multiple, with females also showing well.
Hooded Warbler - multiple, but not many.
Canada Warbler - few, so far.
N.B. - There were some likely hybrid-types among the Blue-winged Warbler sightings and this also is prime-time for the possible appearances of Golden-winged Warbler passage and arrivals, and that species, and-or its hybrid-mixed forms, ought to be watched for. An Orange-crowned Warbler was seen on Sat. April 27th, at Central Park, perhaps still present to Sunday. There were a few reports of still-other warbler species which may be anticipated for coming days.
Golden-crowned Kinglet was still present in Central Park at-least thru Saturday, as was Brown Creeper, and both might have been ongoing into Sunday. A few additional Swainsons Thrushes were showing by Sunday, that also so of elsewhere in New York County. The most-regular of the brown-backed thrush species was still Hermit Thrush, with Wood Thrush and Veery also around in lower numbers.
Other species in or passing-over Central Park on Sunday included -
Common Loon - flyovers on some early-mornings passages including on Sunday, 28th.
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret - including multiple, regular flyovers, more often seen from the northern half of Central Park as flyovers.
Snowy Egret - flyovers which are rather regular, esp. for the northern half of Central Park and adjacent neighborhoods.
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal - still ongoing at The Pool, in the parks n-w quadrant.
Bufflehead - at the reservoir with multiple observers.
Ruddy Duck
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Coopers Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Solitary Sandpiper - at n. end of Central Park.
Spotted Sandpiper - few.
Laughing Gull - few in Central Park, becoming more numerous for New York County in the most-expected locations.
Ring-billed Gull
American Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
feral Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - several, but not-yet a peak arrival at all.
Chimney Swift - increasing almost-daily.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - increased passages.
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - decreased.
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe - slightly decreased numbers this past week.
Great Crested Flycatcher - increased.
Eastern Kingbird - increased a bit.
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White-eyed Vireo - multiple, but not many.
Blue-headed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo - still low numbers, and not yet the peak arrival-passage.
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Northern Raven
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Swainson's Thrush - relatively few so far.
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
Veery - relatively few.
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
House Sparrow
Cedar Waxwing
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird - still around but scarcer by now.
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Purple Finch - fair numbers of these have been passing, some lingering, generally rather-few in any one location.
House Finch
American Goldfinch - increased numbers and certainly not-and-never most-common at any bird-feeders in mid to late spring - here.
Summer Tanager - as noted at top of this report.
Scarlet Tanager - multiple but still not-yet the major-arrival.
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - increased.
Indigo Bunting
Eastern Towhee - decreasing passages.
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow - increased a bit with multiple sightings, these no-longer only applying just to wintered individuals in this county.
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow - a good push of this species has been underway, with many on-passage, besides those many which annually and successfully overwinter in this park and in Manhattan more generally.
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco - still some pushing thru and perhaps a very few lingerers too.
and surely some additional species for Central Park alone... with still more species for all of New York County. Many other parks and greenspaces have had a lot of migration, and some locations were finding good species-diversity over the weekend.
Thanks to many keen observers out and about at all hours, and a special thanks to many leaders of not-for-profit guided bird walks done all around the county -also regularly now in Central Park- which help to benefit science-based conservation and education for the birds, some of the orgs such as the NYC Bird Alliance - was formerly known as NYC Audubon - and the Linnaean Society of New York, and the American Museum of Natural History just to name 3 large well-regarded not-for-profit organizations. There are other non-profit orgs that also organize guided bird walks in Central Park and around New York County in the spring and other seasons.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
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Date: 4/28/24 2:14 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Sun. April 28, 2024: 12 Species of Wood Warblers, Wood Thrush, Scarlet Tanager
Central Park NYC
Sunday April 28, 2024
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: 12 Species of Wood Warblers including Yellow-throated Warbler, Eastern Kingbird, Wood Thrush, Scarlet Tanager.
Others reported Orchard Oriole, Summer Tanager, and Rose-breasted Grosbeak. In addition, the Pileated Woodpecker continued on Governor's Island today with many observers.
Canada Goose - 8
Mallard - 15 including a hen with 3 ducklings on the Lake near the Boathouse
Mourning Dove - 30-40
Herring Gull - 5-10 flyovers
Double-crested Cormorant - 4
Great Egret - 1 Turtle Pond
Red-tailed Hawk - 2 or 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4
Downy Woodpecker - 3
Northern Flicker - 4 or 5
Eastern Kingbird - Evodia Field (Bob - early)
Blue-headed Vireo - 3
Blue Jay - 6-8
American Crow - 4 or 5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 9-12
Cedar Waxwing - 1 Azalea Pond
House Wren - 1 west of Belvedere Castle
Gray Catbird - 3 or 4
Hermit Thrush - 10-15
Wood Thrush - 3 singing
American Robin - 40-50
Chipping Sparrow - 5-7
White-throated Sparrow - 20-30
Swamp Sparrow - Swampy Pin Oak (Paul Curtis)
Eastern Towhee - 3
Baltimore Oriole - 3 males
Red-winged Blackbird - 6-8
Common Grackle - 10-15
Ovenbird - 1 Evodia Field
Northern Waterthrush - 3
Blue-winged Warbler - 1 west of Weather Station
Black-and-White Warbler - 3 or 4
Northern Parula - 2 (Azalea Pond and south side Turtle Pond)
Yellow Warbler - 1 south side Turtle Pond
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 heard before walk (Bill Heck)
Palm Warbler - 5-7 "Yellow"
Pine Warbler - 3 (1 male, 2 females)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 30-40
Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 continued in Mugger's Woods
Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (west of Weather Station, Evodia Field (Bob and J. Bitetti - early))
Scarlet Tanager - 1 female Evodia Field (Bob and John Bitetti - early)
Northern Cardinal - 6-8
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Date: 4/28/24 3:19 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - 21 warbler spp., incl. in Central Park, and other birds
On Saturday, April 27th a minimum of 21 migratory American warbler species were seen in New York County, which includes Manhattan, Governors Island, and Randalls Island. All of those 21 warbler species were seen in Central Park on Saturday, collectively from hundreds of observers and all of the day from sunrise to end of day.
Many species of migrants also were noted far more widely in dozens of other parks, greenspaces and other sites in the county. The least common here of those many warblers was the Yellow-throated Warbler at Central Park, which was viewed and often photographed by a total of far more than 100 observers for the one day on Saturday - and by yet others on Friday.
A Pileated Woodpecker found on Governors Island was by-far the most unusual species seen in any part of the county on Saturday, with multiple reports in eBird for that and also many photos and some video. Within the county, the species has been most regular over many decades in spring, and most often, if seen at all, in the northernmost part of the county, ie the north end of Manhattan, where still a definite rarity in any year.
More than 125 species of wild and native birds were seen in the county on Saturday 4-27, and at least 102 of those species were also observed in or passing over Central Park on the day.
More to report on in due course with migration both helped and hindered by very active weather thru much of the eastern part of the country overnight.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
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Date: 4/27/24 2:14 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Sat. April 27, 2024: 9 Species of Wood Warblers incl. Yellow-throated Warbler, Yellow-throated Vireo
Central Park NYC
Saturday April 27, 2024
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on an unseasonably cold morning: Common Loon, Yellow-throated and Blue-headed Vireos, Nine Species of Wood Warblers Including Yellow-throated Warbler.
Canada Goose - 15
Mallard - 11
Bufflehead - 3 (2 males, 1 female) Reservoir (Deb - early)
Mourning Dove - 40-50
Chimney Swift - 1 Turtle Pond
Herring Gull - 17
Great Black-backed Gull - 3
Common Loon - 2 continue at the Reservoir (Deb - early)
Double-crested Cormorant - 11
Red-tailed Hawk - 3 or 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4
Downy Woodpecker - 2 Evodia Field feeders
Northern Flicker - 4 or 5
Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 King of Poland (found by Alice Deutsch)
Blue-headed Vireo - 3
Blue Jay - 9-12
American Crow - 3 or 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 8-10
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Belvedere Castle (Bob and Deb - early)
Carolina Wren - 2 or 3
House Wren - 1
Hermit Thrush - 8-10
Wood Thrush - 1 Gill Overlook
American Robin - 60-70
House Finch - 3 or 4
Purple Finch - 1 female Tupelo Field (Ryan Serio)
American Goldfinch - 8-10
Chipping Sparrow - 15-18
White-throated Sparrow - 30-40
Eastern Towhee - 3
Baltimore Oriole - 1 male continuing south side of Turtle Pond
Red-winged Blackbird - 8-10
Common Grackle - 15-20
Ovenbird - 1 Ramble
Nashville Warbler - 1 Azalea Pond
Northern Parula - 1 male Azalea Pond
Palm Warbler - 4 or 5 "Yellow"
Pine Warbler - 1 female Upper Lobe (Karen Evans and Dan Stevenson)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 or 6
Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 continuing Evodia Field
Prairie Warbler - 1 male continuing near Turtle Pond Dock
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 male Azalea Pond
Northern Cardinal - 6-8
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Date: 4/27/24 7:18 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC - Sat., 4/27 - Yellow-throated Warbler continues, etc.
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City -
On Saturday, April 27th a singing male Yellow-throated Warbler was continuing within the Ramble area of Central Park in same areas as for Friday. There were at least 18 additional warbler species in the same park for Saturday, 27th. More reports in due course for the good ongoing migration, which is occurring widely now.
A Little Blue Heron that had been in the Ramble - lakeshore - for Friday morning was seen to fly off by midday of Friday, high and perhaps exiting Manhattan completely by Friday. Those who came seeking that heron later in the day added to the observers of the above-noted warbler which many ultimately saw well, at various hours thru all of Friday, and still present for Saturday.
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Elsewhere in Manhattan and again going back to Friday 4-26, an adult male Blue Grosbeak that appears to be a bit injured or ill was again seen and well photographed in the areas it has been lingering, on the lower east side East Village area and sometimes in private property, where NO one should trespass for any reasons. That bird has been looked at in-situ by qualified rehabbers yet it is mobile and has continued to feed.
Thanks to the many quiet and keen observers of many migrants and visiting or resident birds.
good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
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Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, April 26th, 2024* at 11 pm. The highlights of today's tape are LAZULI BUNTING, SWAINSON'S WARBLER, HARLEQUIN DUCK, RED-NECKED GREBE, WESTERN CATTLE EGRET, PROTHONOTARY, YELLOW-THROATED, KENTUCKY and CERULEAN WARBLERS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and much more.
Thanks to a posting on Facebook the presence of a LAZULI BUNTING coming to feeders in a residential section of Flanders just south of Riverhead became known and as of last Sunday birders were permitted to visit this site and enjoy this colorful young male as it made periodic appearances there. Visitors continued through Monday afternoon but unfortunately were not repeated Tuesday or thereafter. The homeowners and surrounding neighbors deserve a hardy thank you for welcoming the throng of birders into their neighborhood. This handsome bird will constitute a second New York State record after acceptance by NYSARC.
A SWAINSON'S WARBLER found on the 19th at Brooklyn Bridge Park was still present there Thursday but was not reported today. On Thursday the bird was foraging actively and would sing occasionally in the overgrown triangle next to the Pier 5 uplands lawn just south of the public restrooms. Hopefully, it might remain there.
Among lingering waterfowl, a black-type BRANT was reported Monday out of Captree State Park and a HARLEQUIN DUCK was still off Orient Point County Park on Monday. Three RED-NECKED GREBES were still in the waters off Dead Horse Point just west of Floyd Bennett Field on Saturday and a Staten Island CASPIAN TERN was at Wolfe's Pond Park on Wednesday and Freshkills Park the next day.
The AMERICAN BITTERN in the Central Park Ramble on Wednesday and Thursday was followed by an even more unusual LITTLE BLUE HERON in the Ramble today and a WESTERN CATTLE EGRET visited West Mill Pond in Forge River back on Wednesday.
RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continue along the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond in Manorville and at Croton Point Park.
Single PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS reported one continuing in Prospect Park to last Saturday, one visiting Alley Pond Park Monday, and one Wednesday around Turtle Pond in Central Park. YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS continue at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River and one visited Central Park's Ramble today. Also today a KENTUCKY WARBLER appeared at Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island while a CERULEAN WARBLER appeared at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Westchester Monday.
Several reports of SUMMER TANAGER included two birds in Central Park Thursday as well as singles in Prospect Park Wednesday through today, at Jones Beach West End Coast Guard Station Tuesday through today and on Wednesday in Green-wood Cemetery and in Wantagh. Several BLUE GROSBEAKS have included one moving around Manhattan's East Village through today, one in Riverside Park Thursday, one continuing to Thursday in Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park, one in Heckscher State Park Thursday and one in Connetquot River State Park at least to Thursday and one at Montauk's Camp Hero Sunday.
Other seasonal migrants included YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, LEAST FLYCATCHER, RED-EYED VIREO, BALTIMORE ORIOLE and SCARLET TANAGER plus such warblers as BLUE-WINGED, TENNESSEE, CAPE MAY, MAGNOLIA, BLACK-THROATED BLUE, and BLACK-THROATED GREEN.
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Date: 4/26/24 4:00 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Fri. April 26, 2024: Great Blue and Little Blue Herons, Hooded and Yellow-throated Warblers
Central Park NYC
Friday April 26, 2024
OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Great Blue Heron, Tree Swallow, Cedar Waxwing, Hooded and Yellow-throated Warblers.
Liam Brock found a Little Blue Heron at the Oven, subsequently seen by many observers.
Canada Goose - around 20
Wood Duck - 1 male Reservoir (Deb after lunch)
Gadwall - pair at the Pool
Mallard - around 20
Green-winged Teal - a pair continued at the Pool
Bufflehead - 3 (2 females, and 1 immature male)
Mourning Dove - 20-30
Chimney Swift - at least 5 over the Harlem Meer
Herring Gull - around a hundred
Great Black-backed Gull - 4
Double-crested Cormorant - 8
Great Blue Heron - 1 flyover Harlem Meer
Great Egret - 2 or 3
Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (1 perched Loch, 1 flyover)
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
Downy Woodpecker - 3
Northern Flicker - 4 or 5, one working on a nest at Conservatory Garden
Blue-headed Vireo - 2 (Conservatory Garden (Paul Curtis), Green Bench)
Blue Jay - half-a-dozen, but 2 pairs nesting at the north end
American Crow - 4
Tree Swallow - flyover Harlem Meer
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5 or 6
Cedar Waxwing - 6
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Ramble
Northern Mockingbird - 2 or 3
Hermit Thrush - 8-10
American Robin - 15-20
House Finch - 4-6
American Goldfinch - 3 or 4
Chipping Sparrow - 1
White-throated Sparrow - around 30
Eastern Towhee - 2 (Wildflower Meadow (Scott Brevda), Loch)
Red-winged Blackbird - 8-10 including 2 females
Common Grackle - 10-15
Louisiana Waterthrush - 3
Northern Waterthrush - 3 or 4
Black-and-white Warbler - 2 males (Pool and Loch)
Hooded Warbler - 1 continuing male west end of the Loch at the Seep
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 at the Pool (Anindya Seng)
Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 ranging between Evodia and Tupelo Field (Brad Kane)
Northern Cardinal - 6 or 7 including a female on a nest for at least a week
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Date: 4/26/24 12:12 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC - Friday, 4/26 -L.B. Heron (rare there), rep't. of Yellow-thr. Warbler, many other migrants
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City -
On Friday morning, April 26th, a LITTLE Blue Heron was a fine surprise in this park, at the south end of the Ramble and east of landmark Bow Bridge, not unexpected at all in a number of other sites in N.Y. City, but decidedly rare for the island of Manhattan over the long history of bird-observation there. Many many observers of this breeding plumaged adult bird, with many more arriving to look in the afternoon of Friday. Thanks to Liam Brock for this great new find for the spring season - and it looks for this modern era, also. Plenty of nice photos will be found of this lovely heron in the Macaulay Library archives, via many eBird reports.
NB, this may well be the first of this heron species at Central Park to be documented for the -modern and eBird era, with earlier sightings, even -if- photographed or videotaped and that with actual tape ! - seemingly not in any historical databases. It is not the first occurrence of the species in Central Park, historically. In a period of extensive non-work over a period of time at The Meer area in the parks northern end, in the 1990s, there were many unusual and interesting migrant and other birds stopping in, with relatively little to near-zero visual documentation on some species occurring then, at a piece of temporary, but not brief, bird and wildlife habitat in a site which was very long ago, a part of great wetlands in Manahatta - that area is still a low-lying naturally wetter sector due to geology and hydrology of the area.
A first-of-year-here Yellow-throated WARBLER at the Central Park Ramble was reported and confirmed in eBird for Friday morning as well, an additional prompt for a lot of seekers to get in to that park all thru the day and simply get out anywhere for birds on the move, and check out some of this good migration. Also a presumed first for Manhattan this spring, on Thursday, Tennessee Warbler - singing - seen at the south sector of Central Park, and perhaps elsewhere on the day.
More than 100 species of native birds were found for Friday 4-26 in this one park, with a fair number of the species noted from the previous days of sightings-reports. Multiple male-plumaged Hooded Warblers are just one of many - 19-plus species by mid-afternoon - of the migratory American warbler species enjoyed again, the latter Hoodeds showing nicely in at least 4 different sectors of that park and watched by well-over 100 total observers, in multiple sectors of that one park.
Flycatchers including Least and Great Crested, along with E. Kingbird and E. Phoebe, four or more species of expected vireos including White-eyed Vireo, Orchard and Baltimore Orioles, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, still-good sparrow variety and, likely the first-of-spring Yellow-billed Cuckoo are all part of the ongoing colors and diversity in late-Aprils ongoing migration. The 2 Green-winged Teals also remained at The Pool, in the n-w sector of Central Park, while waterfowl in general has been diminishing here in variety, as is expected by about now in this location.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
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Date: 4/26/24 3:35 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC - Thurs., 4/25 - Am.Bittern, 20+ Warbler species, more migrants
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City -
Thursday, April 25th -
For many observers who made it both into the fading daylight, as well as hours earlier on Thursday, the American BITTERN first noted and reported by Elizabeth Paredes, in the heart of the Ramble area of the park was a highlight of the day in that park.
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At not-far-away Riverside Park on Manhattans west edge, and north of W. 110 St., an adult male BLUE Grosbeak in healthy active condition was a very nice find by some of the parks crew, and with T. Bolster, crew who work in that sector of that attractive linear park, which has some great old trees and patches of other habitats. That grosbeak was also seen by additional birders and well photographed into the afternoon on Thursday. The Riverside Park Grosbeak was mainly seen just a bit west of the eastern retaining or perimeter wall, from the western-most path within the park proper, and both up in leafing out trees as well as foraging at low and ground levels at times.
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Back in Central Park -only- a minimum of twenty migratory American warblers were found on Thursday, with at least a few being new reports of the spring in the county. The male Prothonotary Warbler seen by so many in Central Park all of Wednesday went missing for Thursday, by all known reports and despite much seeking for that. A great deal of migration had occurred on Wed night, both incoming and outgoing for Manhattan overall and of course much of the wider region.
Warblers seen by multiple observers on Thursday just in Central Park included -
Worm-eating,
Black-throated Blue -at least several in disparate locations within the park, all seen we’re sometimes-singing males-,
Hooded -minimum of 3 different adult male Hoodeds in 3 separate areas, all giving songs or calls at times-,
Magnolia - at least one in the southern sector of the park below the 72nd St cross-drive in large elms, which we’re fairly active early in the day, less so later-
And - low-multiples of Blue-winged,
American Redstart,
N. Parula,
Prairie,
Black-throated Green,
Cape May,
Yellow,
and Nashville Warbler,
plus modest increases of Myrtle - still called yellow-rumped Warbler by many and having more females along with ongoing males passing, esp for those observing early morning diurnal flight passage as is occurring much more this second half of April,
many more of Black-and-white Warblers but numbers still dominated by males for Thursday,
and far more of Ovenbirds which Park-wide were into nice double-digits as some walked right along less-used paths and some also maintained caution in trees or shrubs,
as well as multiples of Pine and Palm Warblers, both of the Waterthrush species, of course Northern getting to be the more-numerous of them already,
plus Common Yellowthroats in multiple areas.
There were a few other migrant warbler species spoken of from some folks out thru the day in Central Park, and well could have been at least a few additionals to those listed above.
For just a sampler of some other migrants that increased within Central Park by Thursday 4-25, some increases were seen for E. Kingbirds, yet more Warbling Vireos as well as 4 other expected vireo species, and some of the later-moving sparrows such as White-crowned Sparrow showing in the modest multiple and some singing well, for bright colors, at least a few Scarlet Tanagers, Orchard Orioles, more of Baltimore Orioles, and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks as well as Purple Finches, and the —report of— Summer Tanager on the day. Still present were at least a few Least Flycatchers and Great Crested Flycatchers each vocalizing at times since their arrivals here. Indigo Buntings also continued but in low numbers so far, as the main arrivals for those and a vast many other migratory species are yet to come this spring.
Far more species were noted on Thursday in this one park and yet-more for all of New York County, in N.Y. City on the day. The above only a select sampler of sightings.
Thanks to the many observers including leaders of the not-for-profit birding walks and their many participants all of whom are assisting in efforts for bird conservation, diversity and science based education.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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Date: 4/25/24 12:28 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Thu. April 25, 2024: Blue-winged, Nashville, Hooded, Yellow, Prairie and Black-throated Green Warblers
Central Park NYC
Thursday April 25, 2024
OBS:Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Osprey, Bald Eagle, Purple Finch, Baltimore Oriole, Blue-winged, Nashville, Hooded, Yellow, Prairie and Black-throated Green Warblers.
Roger Pasquier reported two Summer Tanagers at the Maintenance Field. Annie Plum reported a Rusty Blackbird and Northern Waterthrush at the Pool.
Canada Goose - 8
Mallard - 6
Mourning Dove - 40-50
Herring Gull - 4 flyovers
Double-crested Cormorant - 6 or 7
Great Egret - 1 Turtle Pond (Bob - early)
Osprey - 1 flyover
Bald Eagle - 1 flyover adult
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4
Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3
Northern Flicker - 5 or 6
Blue-headed Vireo - 4 or 5
Warbling Vireo - 4
Blue Jay - 8-10
Common Raven - 1 flyover Maintenance Field
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 25-35
Cedar Waxwing - 1 Maintenance Field (Bob - early)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Maintenance Field (Bob - early)
House Wren - 1 Vista Rock (Belvedere Castle)
Gray Catbird - 2 Ramble
Hermit Thrush - 8-10
American Robin - 50-60
House Finch - 1 male Evodia Field feeders (Arthur)
Purple Finch - 5 females Tupelo Field
American Goldfinch - 3 or 4
Chipping Sparrow - 25-30
Field Sparrow - 1 Maintenance Field
Dark-eyed Junco - 2 or 3
White-throated Sparrow - 25-30
Eastern Towhee - 8-10
Baltimore Oriole - 1 male south side of Turtle Pond (Caren Jahre)
Red-winged Blackbird - 4 or 5
Common Grackle - 20-25
Ovenbird - 1 heard Azalea Pond (David Barrett)
Blue-winged Warbler - 1 east of Azalea Pond
Black-and-white Warbler - 4 or 5 males
Nashville Warbler - 2 Ramble
Common Yellowthroat - 1 Belvedere Castle (Bob - early)
Hooded Warbler - 1 male Warbler Rock
Northern Parula - 1 male east of Azalea Pond (Paul Curtis)
Yellow Warbler - 1 east of Azalea Pond
Palm Warbler - 4 "Yellow"
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 or 6
Prairie Warbler - 1 male south side Turtle Pond
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 male east side Azalea Pond (David Barrett)
Northern Cardinal - 5 or 6
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Birds continuing at the Reservoir on Tuesday April 24th included a Gadwall pair, 1 male Northern Shoveler, 12 Buffleheads, 1 female Ruddy Duck, and 2 Common Loons (1 in near breeding plumage).
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Date: 4/25/24 3:18 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park/Manhattan, NYC - Wed., 4/24 - Blue Grosbeak, 18+ Warbler spp., more migration
Manhattan, New York City, with Central Park featuring a lot in below sightings,
from just Wednesday, April 24th -
The ongoing BLUE Grosbeak was still at the VillageView rose garden and vicinity in Manhattans lower east East Village area, thru all of Wednesday, and again as many have observed, this bright breeding-plumaged male has some sort of injuries and at times, may look lethargic yet, has continued to feed and fly at least weakly around in the areas it has been for some days now. Hopefully it may still be recovering, if the main issue was a concussive injury by a building or window strike.
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With up to 18 or more migratory American Warbler species, it was a good day for Manhattan and a lot of birds and their observers certainly made Central Park a place to be or to watch, with multiple not-for-profit guided walks out and about from early to end of the day Wednesday.
Highlights are many from Central Park alone and at least some birds new to the year and this spring were found around the park, of course that bright male PROTHONOTARY Warbler being among the well-noted and highly-observed birds. For other warblers there also were these, at least - Nashville Warbler, Northern Parula, Yellow Warbler, Cape May Warbler, Myrtle a.k.a. Yellow-rumped Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Pine Warbler, Prairie Warbler, Palm Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, American Redstart, Worm-eating Warbler, Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush, Louisiana Waterthrush, Common Yellowthroat, and Hooded Warbler. There may have been a couple of additional newly-arrived warbler species in by Wednesday as well. Some, indeed most of the species were seen in the multiple, that is, more than just one individual - the Prothonotary is presumed only the one male, even with some reports that that one male had wandered into the Ramble area at times away from the Turtle Pond. - - - N.B., in the region, such species of warbler as Cerulean have arrived in breeding-locations, and so far a few males are in place. - - - and, more generally, a good many migrant birds have arrived to some breeding areas, some barely or not having been noted - yet! - from local migrant-watch sites such as Central Park for example. Many birds flew on to preferred breeding areas, or mostly have done so, which is not unusual, and also accords with the leafout of so many trees in the areas just north and near N.Y. City by now.
Some additional highlighted species from Wednesday alone, at Central Park -
Common Loon
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Wood Duck
Northern Shoveler
Bufflehead
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Broad-winged Hawk
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
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White-eyed Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
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Northern Raven
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
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Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow - multiple flyovers.
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
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Carolina Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren - seen by many including early-birder C. Roberto et al, and also late in day on not-for-profit guided bird walks.
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Cedar Waxwing
Tanager species - in north end of park, by a description a LIKELY Summer Tanager male, northwest sector.
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Red Fox Sparrow - getting late for these.
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Slate-colored Junco
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - multiples, into double-digits for all of the park, including males and female birds.
Indigo Bunting
Rusty Blackbird
Orchard Oriole - this species is also on-territory in a few sites in Manhatttan, thru this week.
Baltimore Oriole - still few.
Purple Finch - multiple in multiple areas of the park and these are also appearing WIDELY in the county and in the region now.
House Finch - also and always present in Central Park and the county.
Pine Siskin - very scant, some have passed thru along with the Purple Finch movements and the increases of the next-listed finch species.
American Goldfinch - have increased in past week generally.
--- the above are ONLY some highlights and not a list of all species for the county, the island of Manhattan, and nor even for Central Park. Additional creatures in Central Park have included E. Red Bat, and some of the other -usual- mammals including Coyote, as well as Eastern Cottontail Rabbit, groundhog, chipmunk and so on. Vast variety of arthropods are out and insects are a great part of that diversity, some offering good feeding for hungry migrant-arrivals of so many birds.
Thanks to the many observers out and about from -some- before sunrise to dusk, and to the many reporting via the -non-X- alerts systems and of course and especially via eBird with the Macaulay Library archives for some great photos of so many of these sightings. There are now not-for-profit guided bird walks virtually every day in Central Park AND all around the countys parks and greenspaces, which all offer benefits to bird conservation, diversity in general, and to furthering science-based observation.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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Date: 4/24/24 8:29 pm From: <marciaaabrahams...> <marciaaabrahams...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] The next Queens County Bird Club meeting will be held on May 15, 2024 at 7:30 PM, featuring Mary Normandia & Seth Ausubel "Hawk Migration (and other birds) in Tubac, AZ"
The next Queens County Bird Club meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, at 7:30 PM at the Alley Pond Environmental Center, 229-10 Northern Boulevard, Douglaston, NY 11362.
Mary Normandia and Seth Ausubel will present "Hawk Migration (and other birds) in Tubac, AZ."
This presentation showcases migrating raptors and other birds seen near the Santa Cruz River in Southeast Arizona. The Tubac Hawk Watch has provided many insights on the migration of the Common Black Hawk and other raptors rare in the USA and has become a destination for thousands of birders each year. Seth Ausubel and Mary Normandia, who still live part time in Queens, have resided in Tubac since 2020 and have seen a lot of nice birds there. They will share their experiences at this remarkable place.
Please arrive early since the front door must be locked after the meeting starts.
Marcia AbrahamsVP/Programs CoordinatorQueens County Bird Clubwww.qcbirdclub.orgEmail: <MarciaAAbrahams...>
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Date: 4/24/24 3:45 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Prothonotary Warbler, Wed, 4/24
On Wednesday, April 24th, Christian Cooper found a singing male Prothonotary Warbler around Turtle Pond in Central Park, in Manhattan, N.Y. City. A great many observers to see and hear this beauty, with thanks to Chris! Plenty of additional migrant species were also seen in this park, and elsewhere in New York County, N.Y City, on the day, some will be reported on at a later time. If that Prothonotary Warbler is not re-found at the Turtle Pond, it may be worth checking at any additional shores of any waters in the vicInity or even farther within that park. Thanks also to the many who kept putting out word of this ever-popular warbler species presence.
Good birds,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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Date: 4/23/24 11:47 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Manhattan and N.Y. County, NYC - Tuesday, April 23 - migration notes
A Swainsons Warbler has continued in Brooklyn Bridge Park in Kings County -Brooklyn- NY City for Tuesday April 23, as being seen by MANY there.
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Manhattan and elsewhere in N.Y. County, within N.Y. City -
Tuesday, April 23rd -
A brightly plumaged adult male Blue Grosbeak was ongoing in the area of East 3rd to E. 4th Streets in Manhattans far-east Village area, with multiple observers and photos on each day of its lengthy stay in these small greenspaces - it might be that more than 1 individual bird was involved, but I am unaware of any documentation, video or photo, showing two birds at once in same imagery. This bird also has been singing or calling at times. Please show reasonable respect for neighborhood residents, this is a residential area and not all will understand the interest in this one special bird, although many locals are both curious and friendly.
A lot of migration again for the overnight with a nice diversity of species on the move in the night, and early morning of Tuesday, as partly detected thru NFC, nocturnal flight calls, and also by in-daylight watches and some reports from the early-birders able to be out on the day. At least 15 species of warblers were noted in Central Park alone for Tuesday morning from all sectors of that park, and as seen by multiple observers. Other parks and greenspaces also have had some migrants, and at-least some as was expected for the two larger out-islands of the county, Governors, and Randalls Islands. Many flyovers in early morning were possibly continuing on with very ideal weather conditions plus tailwinds.
Some of many recent arrivals and other migrants in highlights are - Black Vulture, Broad-winged Hawk, many other migrating raptors, Greater Yellowlegs, Solitary Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper -in N.F.C. only for the period-, Eastern Whip-poor-will -not seen, so far!-, Monk Parakeet - a breeding species in the city, and in this county lately-, Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, at-least 4 Vireo species, N. Raven - nesting in county, at-least 3 Swallow species, all 3 spp. which have been regular lately, Veery, Wood Thrush -and still by-far more of Hermit Thrush lingering and passing than the other brown-backed types of migrant thrushes -a few Wood Thrush do nest successfully in Manhattan each year, but are challenged in some of the sites they try doing so in here- ..., Red Fox Sparrow, still lingering and-or passing, getting slightly late by now,
Many new or relatively-recent migrant arrivals and passage fliers, as well as some arrivals of birds which can and do nest in this county. A sampler -only- of some species is listed below, from Manhattan or elsewhere within N.Y. County, N.Y. City. Some species seen within or flying by, thru, over Central Park are noted as -CP- in the listings below.
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon -CP-
Double-crested Cormorant -CP-
Great Blue Heron -CP-
Great Egret -CP-
Snowy Egret -CP-
Green Heron -CP-
Black-crowned Night-Heron -CP-
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture -CP-
Canada Goose -CP-
Atlantic Brant
Mute Swan
Wood Duck -CP-
Gadwall -CP-
American Black Duck
Northern Shoveler -CP-
Green-winged Teal -CP-
Bufflehead -CP-
Hooded Merganser -CP-
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck -CP-
Osprey -CP-
Bald Eagle -CP-
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk -CP-
Coopers Hawk -CP-
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk -CP-
American Kestrel -CP-
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon -CP-
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper -CP-
Spotted Sandpiper -CP-
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper - at least one, N.F.C.-only.
Wilsons Snipe
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull -CP-
American Herring Gull -CP-
Great Black-backed Gull -CP-
Mourning Dove -CP-
Monk Parakeet
Whip-poor-will - for so far in the period, N.F.C. and possibly on-the-ground at one location.
Chimney Swift -CP-
Ruby-throated Hummingbird -CP-
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker -CP-
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker -CP-
Downy Woodpecker -CP-
Hairy Woodpecker -CP-
Yellow-shafted Flicker -CP-
Eastern Phoebe -CP-
Great Crested Flycatcher -CP-
Eastern Kingbird -CP-
Blue-headed Vireo -CP-
Yellow-throated Vireo -CP-
Warbling Vireo -CP-
Red-eyed Vireo -CP-
Blue Jay -CP-
Northern Raven -CP-
American Crow -CP-
Fish Crow -CP-
Tree Swallow -CP-
Northern Rough-winged Swallow -CP-
Barn Swallow -CP-
Black-capped Chickadee -CP-
Tufted Titmouse -CP-
White-breasted Nuthatch -CP-
Brown Creeper -CP-
Carolina Wren -CP-
House Wren -CP-
Winter Wren -CP-
Marsh Wren -CP-
Golden-crowned Kinglet -CP-
Ruby-crowned Kinglet -CP-
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher -CP-
Veery -CP-
Hermit Thrush -CP-
Wood Thrush -CP-
American Robin -CP-
Gray Catbird -CP-
Northern Mockingbird -CP-
Brown Thrasher -CP-
Cedar Waxwing -CP-
Eastern Towhee -CP-
Chipping Sparrow -CP-
Field Sparrow -CP-
Savannah Sparrow -CP-
Red Fox Sparrow -CP-
Song Sparrow -CP-
Swamp Sparrow -CP-
White-throated Sparrow -CP-
Slate-colored Junco -CP-
Northern Cardinal -CP-
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - still scant numbers but had increased a little. -CP-
Blue Grosbeak - noted at top of this report.
Indigo Bunting - in multiple locations in the county, -CP-.
Red-winged Blackbird -CP-
Rusty Blackbird - few. -CP-
Common Grackle -CP-
Brown-headed Cowbird -CP-
Orchard Oriole - multiple locations in the county -CP-
Baltimore Oriole -CP-
Purple Finch -CP-
House Finch -CP-
Pine Siskin -CP- - few, in flocks with some of the Am. Goldfinches.
American Goldfinch -CP-
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Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler -CP-
Northern Parula -CP-
Yellow Warbler -CP-
Myrtle -a.k.a. Yellow-rumped- Warbler -CP-
Black-throated Green Warbler -CP-
Pine Warbler -CP-
Prairie Warbler -CP-
Palm Warbler -CP-
Black-and-white Warbler -CP-
Worm-eating Warbler -CP-
Ovenbird -CP-
Northern Waterthrush -CP-
Louisiana Waterthrush -CP-
Common Yellowthroat -CP-
Hooded Warbler -CP-
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The list above does not include all sightings from all observers all-around the county for Tuesday. More migration reports, in due course. Thanks to various many observers out in the sunny morning hours and on thru the day and in many locations.
Good birding and a Healthy and Happy Passover to all who celebrate,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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Date: 4/22/24 3:24 pm From: Andrew Block <ablock22168...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] addendum to previouspost
The bunting is actually in Flanders, but the GPS makes you put Riverhead. Don't know why. Another reason to hate those things:-)
Andrew
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The adult male Lazuli Bunting being seen at 27 Royal Ave in Riverhead, NY, was still there as of about 1230pm. It appeared for about three minutes before being scared off by the cars and loud truck going by and flying around to the back of the home. It evidentily comes about every hour or so from behind the left side of the home and then into the crapemyrtle on the left side of the home to the feeder next to it. Also seen was a female Rose-breasted Grosbeak. What a gorgeous bird. Shame it didn't stay longer.
Andrew
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Date: 4/22/24 3:33 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC - Sat.- Sunday, 4/20-21 - 12 Warbler spp., many more migrants, etc.
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City -
Saturday and Sunday, April 20-21st
Some of the many species seen for the weekend just in or over Central Park are listed below, including the at-least 12 species of migratory American warblers.
Common Loon - multiple early-morning flyovers, and a couple still on the CP reservoir.
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret - flyovers
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Atlantic Brant - few flyovers
Wood Duck - lingering male.
Gadwall
American Black Duck - few.
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal - same lingering pair at The Pool.
Lesser Scaup - 3, with 2 bright males to Sat., 4-20.
Bufflehead - few lingering or passing.
Hooded Merganser - 2 females, lingering, reservoir.
Red-breasted Merganser - hen, reservoir.
Ruddy Duck - few remained.
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk - at least one flyover; also some seen from elsewhere around Manhattan, etc.
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Virginia Rail - as first noted in ebird reporting from Sat., 4-20 at The Pond area in s.-e. part of park. Many observers all day Sunday.
American Coot
Laughing Gull - reservoir plus a few flyovers.
Ring-billed Gull
American Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
feral Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift - multiple flyovers continuing and passing all of past week and weekend.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - several, into Sunday.
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
White-eyed Vireo - one.
Blue-headed Vireo - multiple, fairly good numbers.
Yellow-throated Vireo - continuing.
Warbling Vireo - few.
Red-eyed Vireo - few.
Northern Raven - several sightings.
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow - increased, and calling in some areas.
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow - the 3 swallow species listed have been regular in Central Park all the past week and weekend.
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
House Wren - multiple.
Winter Wren - good passages, thru Sunday at Central Park.
Golden-crowned Kinglet - few, lingering thru Sunday.
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - many.
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Hermit Thrush - many.
Wood Thrush - several, this species also seen this past week in some other Manhattan locations.
American Robin
Gray Catbird - still in v. modest numbers.
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
House Sparrow
Cedar Waxwing - nice numbers for all of the park.
Eastern Towhee - multiple.
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow - N. end area.
Savannah Sparrow
Red Fox Sparrow - still some in various areas of the park, including within the Ramble and elsewhere.
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow - many.
Slate-colored Junco - small numbers remained.
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - at least several, and not the first days of occurrence.
Indigo Bunting - several. This species has been appearing lately in a few other Manhattan locations as well.
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird - several, continuing.
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole - several, and singing. Additionally seen in some other sites in Manhattan, including where they have bred.
Baltimore Oriole - few, and some not all that vocal.
Purple Finch - multiple, but in v. modest numbers.
House Finch
American Goldfinch - fairly good numbers passing.
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Northern Parula - at least several thru the weekend.
Yellow Warbler - several, thru the weekend.
Myrtle -a.k.a. Yellow-rumped- Warbler - modest numbers for what are still to come thru.
Black-throated Green Warbler - at least several, in various sectors of Central Park.
Pine Warbler - still passing, in modest numbers.
Prairie Warbler - several in various areas of the park, this species also elsewhere in Manhattan.
Palm Warbler - many, continuing in many areas.
Black-and-white Warbler - multiple, scattered thru the park in modest numbers.
Ovenbird - few, widely scattered locations including the Ramble of Central Park.
Northern Waterthrush - multiple.
Louisiana Waterthrush - at least a few lingered thru both days of this weekend.
Common Yellowthroat - scarce, but newly-arrived singing males are around, also in a few other sites in Manhattan.
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and quite likely some additional species for Central Park alone this weekend.
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The Blue Grosbeak was still in the Manhattan lower-East Village area at and near East 3rd-4th Streets thru Sunday, 4-21 and was photographed in that area again, with multiple observers.
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An adult-male-plumaged Hooded Warbler had continued in Madison Square Park in Manhattan into at-least April 19th, possibly still there into the weekend.
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Seaside Sparrow had been confirmed from the Pier 44 area -W. 44th St.- of Manhattan's Hudson River shore from back on April 16th.
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We are seeing an interesting increase of, in particular, American Lady and Red Admiral butterflies arriving as migrants this past week, and also some Painted -Vannessa cardui- Lady butterflies as well. Other butterflies, and the first of Common Green Darners and a few other odonate species are among many, many insect species being seen recently in Central Park alone.
Thanks to the hundreds of observers out and about with so many sightings and reports, plus photos-video-audio, via the group-me and other newer alerts systems and of course via eBird.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
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Date: 4/21/24 1:54 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Sun. April 21, 2024: Common Loon, Virginia Rail, Blue-headed Vireo, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Sparrows and Warblers
Central Park NYC
Sunday April 21, 2024
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights on a cold, partly sunny day: Common Loon, Blue-headed Vireo, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Field, Fox and Swamp Sparrows, Louisiana Waterthrush, Black-and-white, Palm, and Pine Warblers. A Virginia Rail seen Saturday continued north of the Gapstow Bridge Mud Flat, and was seen by several of the birders from our group, among others, after lunch*. Bradley Kane reported a Prairie Warbler at Turtle Pond.
Canada Goose - 14, eggs visible in one of the nests
Wood Duck - 1 male Reservoir (Deb - early)
Mallard - 6
Bufflehead - 8
Hooded Merganser - 2 females Reservoir
Ruddy Duck - 2 females Reservoir
Mourning Dove - 60-70
Virginia Rail - 1 north of Gapstow Bridge Mudflat (after lunch)*
Herring Gull - 12
Common Loon - 3 Reservoir (Deb and Signe Hammer)
Double-crested Cormorant - 8
Green Heron - 1 reported at Turtle Pond
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 or 5
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 5
Downy Woodpecker - 3
Northern Flicker - 4 or 5
Blue-headed Vireo - 2 (Tupelo Field, Bow Bridge)
Blue Jay - 9-12
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15-20
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Laupot Bridge (Sandra Critelli), Maintenance Field)
Winter Wren - Evodia Field (Sandra Critelli)
Hermit Thrush - 8-10
American Robin - 50-60, some on eggs
House Finch - 1 male Evodia Field
American Goldfinch - 5 or 6
Chipping Sparrow - 25-30
Field Sparrow - 7
Fox Sparrow - 1 Evodia Field (Sandra Critelli)
White-throated Sparrow - 60-70
Song Sparrow - 3
Swamp Sparrow - 2 (Upper Lobe (Edmund Berry), Turtle Pond)
Eastern Towhee - 7 or 8 including 2 females
Red-winged Blackbird - 5-7
Common Grackle - 10-15
Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 at the Oven
Black-and-white Warbler - 1 Laupot Bridge (Sandra Critelli)
Palm Warbler - 1 "Yellow" Belvedere Castle
Pine Warbler - 1 female Weather Station
Northern Cardinal - 6-8
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Date: 4/21/24 1:16 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Virginia Rail, Central Park NYC 4/20-21 (Saturday-Sunday)
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City -
Saturday and Sunday, April 20-21 -
A Virginia Rail continued at the Pond, near Gapstow Bridge in the parks southeast section, from Saturday into all day Sunday. Thanks to D. RIcci for an initial report, with photos now archived in the Macaulay Library, via eBird. More on some of the 85-plus species of birds seen in Central Park this weekend, at a later time.
Good birding to all,
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Date: 4/21/24 10:42 am From: Andrew Block <ablock22168...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Croton point birds
At croton point park in croton the two basically adult red-headed woodpeckers are still there. Also had two broad-winged hawks fly over and several savanna sparrows and five yellow-rumped and one palm warblers along with two blue-gray gnatcatchers.
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Date: 4/20/24 5:07 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Sat. April 20, 2024: FOS Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Warblers, Lingering Waterfowl
Central Park NYC
Saturday April 20, 2024
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Wood Duck, Lesser Scaup, Hooded and Red-breasted Mergansers, Common Loon, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Five Species of Wood Warblers, Blue-headed Vireo, Fox Sparrow.
Canada Goose - 7
Wood Duck - 1 male Reservoir (Deb - early)
Northern Shoveler - 2 males Reservoir (Deb - early)
Mallard - 4
Lesser Scaup - 3
Bufflehead - 5
Hooded Merganser - 2 females Reservoir
Red-breasted Merganser - 1 Reservoir (David Barrett)
Mourning Dove - 50-60
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 male Belvedere Castle (first-of-season)
Ring-billed Gull - 1 Reservoir
Herring Gull - around 20
Great Black-backed Gull - 2 Reservoir
Common Loon - 1 in near-breeding plumage Reservoir
Double-crested Cormorant - 6
Red-tailed Hawk - 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 or 7
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 female tupelo Field
Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3
Northern Flicker - 4 or 5
Blue-headed Vireo - 4
Blue Jay - 8-10
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 40-50
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 east side of Belvedere Castle
Cedar Waxwing - 2 Maintenance Field
House Wren - 1 Belvedere Castle (Anindya Seng)
Brown Thrasher - 3 (Kris Mirasola)
Hermit Thrush - 6-8
American Robin - 50-60
House Finch - 2 or 3
American Goldfinch - 1 Evodia Field feeders
Chipping Sparrow - 20-30
Fox Sparrow - Tanner's Spring (Sandra Critelli, Karen Evans, Dan Stevenson)
White-throated Sparrow - 60-70
Eastern Towhee - 6 or 7
Red-winged Blackbird - 4-6
Common Grackle - 20-25
Louisiana Waterthrush - 2 or 3
Black-and-white Warbler - 2 (Belvedere Castle, Tupelo Field)
Palm Warbler - 1 "Yellow" Belvedere Castle
Pine Warbler - 2 (male Shakespeare Garden, female Tupelo Field)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4 or 5
Northern Cardinal - 6 or 7
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Date: 4/20/24 2:56 pm From: Alex Tey <alex.tey.18...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Re: [nysbirds-l] Re: Swainson’s Warbler Brooklyn Bridge Park
Do note that there's a Northern Cardinal nest right next to the gravel area
at the SWWA spot in the Pier 5 uplands. The female has been going to the
nest and staying put despite birders getting very close, but let's try to
not stress her out.
On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 11:02 AM Andrew Baksh <birdingdude...> wrote:
> The Swainson’s Warbler continues this AM. See pin below courtesy of Ed
> Becher.
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> The bird is spending its time tossing leaves as it forages on the ground
> and has just started singing intermittently.
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> [image: staticmap.png]
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> 40°41'40.5"N 73°59'59.5"W
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> On Apr 19, 2024, at 10:51 AM, Andrew Baksh <birdingdude...> wrote:
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> Thanks to Dawn Hannay, Ian Bell and Ryan Mandelbaum who cross posted from
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> Coordinates from Ian.
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> (40.6957004, -73.9993768)
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> Some details from Ryan.
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> “the bird is ranging across a large area around the brooklyn bridge park
> pier 5 lawn. it is singing every few minutes. it will be seen for a bit,
> then fly to another shrubby patch and go missing for a bit.”
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> Good luck if you try for it and please keep on cross posting to help those
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Date: 4/20/24 11:12 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] NYC Swainsons Warbler, Blue Grosbeak continue, Sat., 4/20
A sometimes-singing male Swainsons Warbler was continuing from Friday into Saturday morning, April 20th, in the Brooklyn Bridge Park - Kings Co., ie Brooklyn, N.Y. City. This bird is also at times potentially heard singing from parts of the piers at this park which are actually over the N.Y. County line, which is not well-known to many who have not studied the oddities of county boundaries in N.Y. City.
A male Blue Grosbeak was also lingering for some days in the east village area of Manhattan, N.Y. City to Saturday, 4-20 where it’s been in the vicinity of East 3rd and E. 4th Streets, in very small greenspaces and occasionally just along the streets -trees- and adjacent lots and buildings. Both of these birds have had many many observers in their respective stays.
More on other migrants within N.Y. County in a future report. Thanks greatly to all the many fine area birders who have found and re-found these 2 above individual rarities and plenty of other birds recently.
Good luck in birding to all,
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Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, April 19th, 2024* at 11 pm. The highlights of today's tape are SWAINSON'S WARBLER, RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, NORTHERN FULMAR, BROWN PELICAN, WESTERN CATTLE EGRET, RED-NECKED GREBE, ICELAND GULL, CASPIAN TERN, GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, PROTHONOTARY and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, Spring migrants and more.
This morning a male SWAINSON'S WARBLER was found in Brooklyn Bridge Park where it spent the day foraging in brushy areas from Pier 4 down to Pier 6. It would disappear for a while at times but would occasionally sing aiding in relocating the wandering bird. Hopefully, it will remain to Saturday.
The Prospect Park RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD made what may be a final visit Monday morning to the area where it had wintered near Breeze Hill spotted sitting fairly high up in the vegetation.
A nice flight off Robert Moses State Park last Saturday morning featuring an account of over 2,700 NORTHERN GANNETS as well as decent numbers of waterfowl and 7 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS also provided a light phase NORTHERN FULMAR moving east not too far offshore.
An immature BROWN PELICAN, perhaps the one seen back on the 8th, was spotted last Sunday moving by Lido Beach and shortly thereafter heading past Jones Beach West End then back out to sea.
A WESTERN CATTLE EGRET was spotted last Saturday on a lawn at Hawley's Place Park just north of Route 27A in West Islip.
Three RED-NECKED GREBES were still off Dead Horse Point just west of Floyd Bennett Field this morning.
Single ICELAND GULLS were noted Saturday at Fort Tilden, Monday at Great Kills Park, and then Wednesday at Governors Island, and the next day off nearby Brooklyn. While CASPIAN TERN visited Pelham Bay Park last Sunday.
[...] LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS were still on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last Sunday and an AMERICAN BITTERN visited Prospect Park from Monday to Thursday.
A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was found in Green-wood Cemetery last Saturday with a more colorful find that day was a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER spotted in nearby Prospect Park. This bird still present today around West Island in Prospect Park Lake. Besides the YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER present at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River other YELLOW-THROATEDS include singles found at Southaven County Park Sunday and Central Park Monday and in Green-wood Cemetery Tuesday. The SUMMER TANAGER at Southaven County Park Saturday was followed by one Monday in Green-wood Cemetery where a BLUE GROSBEAK was present from Saturday through today. Other BLUE GROSBEAKS included one in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn since Sunday, one moving around the East Village in lower Manhattan from Tuesday on and one at Connetquot River State Park on Thursday.
A good number of Spring arrivals finally this week included such species as COMMON NIGHTHAWK, CHIMNEY SWIFT, SORA, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, WILLET and COMMON and LEAST TERNS as well as GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER, EASTERN KINGBIRD, YELLOW-THROATED and WARBLING VIREOS, VEERY and WOOD THRUSH, more SEASIDE and SALTMARSH SPARROWS and ORCHARD ORIOLE.
Among the arriving warblers have been OVENBIRD, WORM-EATING, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, NASHVILLE, more HOODED, AMERICAN REDSTART, CHESTNUT-SIDED and PRAIRIE while a few ORANGE-CROWNEDS included singles seen in Central Park and Green-wood Cemetery.
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Date: 4/19/24 2:34 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Fri. April 19, 2024: Spring Migrants
Central Park NYC - North end
Friday April 19, 2024
OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Osprey, Six Species of Wood Warblers including Black-and-white Warbler and both Waterthrushes, Sparrows including Chipping, Field, Savannah and Eastern Towhee, Blue-headed Vireo, Rusty Blackbird.
Canada Goose - 21
Mallard - 6
Green-winged Teal - pair continued at the Pool
Ruddy Duck - 1 male Harlem Meer
Mourning Dove - a dozen
Chimney Swift - flock of around 20 over the Meer
Herring Gull - flyover
Double-crested Cormorant - 10-12
Great Blue Heron - 1 flyover Meer (after lunch)
Great Egret - 6-8 flyovers, and 1 perched at the Meer
Osprey - 2 Meer (after lunch) 1 catching a Brown Bullhead, the other carrying a tail
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 flyover
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 Loch
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 male Grassy Knoll
Northern Flicker - half-a-dozen
Blue-headed Vireo - 4 (Dan Stevenson)
Blue Jay - pair building a nest and a few others
Tree Swallow - reported at the Meer by PhillippeSoriano
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 6-8
Barn Swallow - reported at the Meer by Ruben Giron
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15-20
Brown Creeper - 1 Loch (Scott Brevda)
Carolina Wren - heard Conservatory Garden
Winter Wren - 3
Brown Thrasher - 1 Loch (Caren Jahre)
Northern Mockingbird - 1 or 2 (Conservatory Garden and Plant Nursery)
Hermit Thrush - 5 or 6
American Robin - 30-40
Chipping Sparrow - 10-12
Field Sparrow - 1 Grassy Knoll (Scott Brevda)
Dark-eyed Junco - 1 or 2 Grassy Knoll
White-throated Sparrow - 30-40
Savannah Sparrow - 2 Grassy Knoll
Song Sparrow - 4 or 5
Swamp Sparrow - 2 (Loch and Pool)
Eastern Towhee - 3 or 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 10-12 including a couple of females
Rusty Blackbird - 1 male in breeding plumage at the Pool (Caren Jahre)
Common Grackle - 10-12
Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 at the Pool
Northern Waterthrush - 1 at the Pool
Black-and-white Warbler - 1 male at the Loch (Caren Jahre)
Palm Warbler - 1 "Yellow" at the Meer (Dan Stevenson)
Pine Warbler - 1 female Green Bench (Caren Jahre and Anindya Seng)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - male at the Pool (Russell Boehner)
Northern Cardinal - female on nest (Scott Brevda)
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Date: 4/19/24 7:57 am From: jer thorp <jer.thorp...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Re: [nysbirds-l] Swainson’s Warbler Brooklyn Bridge Park
And thanks to Jeff Gramm for this amazing find!
On April 19, 2024, Andrew Baksh <birdingdude...> wrote:
> Thanks to Dawn Hannay, Ian Bell and Ryan Mandelbaum who cross posted
> from the various birding reporting outlets.
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> Coordinates from Ian.
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> (40.6957004, -73.9993768)
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> Some details from Ryan.
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> “the bird is ranging across a large area around the brooklyn bridge
> park pier 5 lawn. it is singing every few minutes. it will be seen for
> a bit, then fly to another shrubby patch and go missing for a bit.”
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> Good luck if you try for it and please keep on cross posting to help
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Date: 4/19/24 3:55 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - to 4/18 - lingerers and migrant arrivals
New York County -in N.Y. City- including Manhattan, Randalls Island and Governors Island
thru Thursday, April 18th -
The ongoing male Blue Grosbeak in lower-east Manhattan was seen into the late-day of Thursday, in the area of East 3rd St. and Ave. A, and may have moved on a bit from that area - further observations may tell. This bird was more active again, and hopefully had good feeding in the stay at small greenspaces of the areas it had been visiting.
Some early-side arrivals included E. Kingbird at both Randalls Island southern end, and Central Parks north end on Thursday, and also at Central Park, Yellow-throated Vireo in the north end, in addition to the slight increase of Blue-headed Vireos more-generally. 2 additional vireo spp. have been reported, and each may be correctly ID'd although these are not fully-confirmed as of yet, each will soon-enough be the most common of vireo species in Manhattan and both breed on the island. A number of the early-arrivals of neotropical-wintering songbirds that first showed seem to have moved-on quickly - just one example, rather early here was Worm-eating Warbler, of which some were already on-territories well north of N.Y. City this week, although far more of any and all of such early-arrivers will be expected in the coming weeks, such as our two breeding species of orioles, and tanagers, Indigo Buntings, and others.
A very nice count of at least 23 Purple Sandpipers was made at the rocky shoreline of Governors Island on Thursday, 18th and there had been a flyby Iceland Gull seen from that island on the 17th. Also showing in those 2 days were at least five warbler spp., including Ovenbird and Black-and-white Warbler, and a good variety of migrant sparrows, as well as Blue-headed Vireos, and many other migrants as well as some breeding species.
In N.Y. County, it appears that of the 16 or more migratory American warblers that showed in the past week or so, just half that number of species were still being found thru Thursday, 18th. A Hooded Warbler on Wed., April 17th at Madison Square Park in Manhattan drew far fewer observers than the first-of-spring in the county not long before, at Central Park. More of all those warblers, and of additional species are likely to come along fairly soon. Most parks, greenspaces, gardens, larger churchyards and the like have seen good passage of sparrows and their relatives, with a few species now getting scarcer here, such as Fox Sparrow.
Thanks to so many keen observers, and many photographers, out and about recently in the county finding and reporting many migrants and other birds.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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Date: 4/18/24 3:52 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC, thru Wed., 4/17 - Blue Grosbeak, warblers redux
Manhattan, N.Y. City - Wednesday, April 17th -
An adult - breeding-plumaged male Blue Grosbeak was lingering for all of Wednesday at locations in the East Village area, with many observers noting that that bird has injuries, likely from a building and-or window strike in the general vicinity but, we can’t be certain - unless there was a witness to such a strike - that such occurred right by the sites, all near and in one small area, as some collision victims will be capable of moving off from where such a hit took place, to varying extent. For example and unfortunately in a location such as Manhattan island any of thousands of structures could potentially affect migratory birds, albeit some structures and situations far more than others. And birds may fly short or even some distances off, even after some types of injuries. The Blue Grosbeak noted here was active, not stationary and moved about in its general area of first reports from at least the day prior, April 16th.
Of warblers we continue to have multiple species around Manhattan, even as many migrants will have moved on in recent nights. An Orange-crowned Warbler in one area within Central Park on 4-17, which was also photographed, could be a freshly or recently arrived individual, however a number of that species did winter thru here. In addition, the recent and somewhat early-arriving Nashville Warbler was a singing male, and at Central Park was far from where the most recent sighing of Orange-crowned took place, more than one mile away.
More migrants will be coming in again quite soon all around the region, and we still may be finding some birds which actually first arrived in this city or this county some days previously, and are being discovered more currently by a lot of active observers.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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Date: 4/17/24 1:19 pm From: Patrice Domeischel <fourharborsheron...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Wild Stories From the History of Bird Migration - Presentation Tomorrow
You are cordially invited to the Four Harbors Audubon Society's next lecture: Wild Stories From the History of Bird Migration with guest speaker, Rebecca Heisman. The program will take place tomorrow, Thursday, April 18th, at 7 p.m.
We've all heard amazing facts about bird migration—the long distances that birds travel, the ways that they navigate, etc. But did you ever wonder how we figured all of this out? While working for the American Ornithological Society, Rebecca Heisman became fascinated with the varied and creative techniques that scientists have used to study bird migration, and this eventually became the basis for her book Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration. In her talk, she'll share some surprising stories from the history of bird migration research and discuss why understanding migration is so crucial for bird conservation.
Rebecca Heisman is a freelance science writer who lives in Walla Walla, Washington, and has worked with organizations including the Audubon Society, the American Bird Conservancy, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the American Ornithological Society. Flight Paths is her first book.
This program is free, open to the public, and hosted on Zoom. To receive the Zoom invitation, you must register using the following link:
Date: 4/17/24 5:02 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC - 4/16 Blue Grosbeak and additional neotropical-wintered migrant arrivals
Manhattan, N.Y. City - into Tuesday, April 16th -
A brightly-colored adult-male BLUE Grosbeak, among at least several of this species to arrive in the local region recently as part of what is now becoming-clearer as a recent quite-strong overshoot and early-arrivals migration of many species into the area, including into New York County and Manhattan island - the Grosbeak having shown in the East Village area of Manhattan, with photographs made available in the Macaulay Library archives via eBird reports, and this bird also quickly alerted to local birders via the groupme systems that so many check for the most-current updates on rarer or unexpected birds, as well as via eBird alerts - this was just one of a number of arrivals indicating the breadth of the weeks good diversity of species showing up in the area, and specifically also in Manhattan, N.Y. City. N.B., there are also some Indigo Buntings in bright-plumage in the area now, and this grosbeak had initially been taken to be an Indigo Bunting but that ID was quickly corrected for that individual, seen in the vicinity of East 4th Street.
Among other sightings - many already mentioned in my last report to this list, have been both VEERY and WOOD Thrush, in a number of locations but in particular as seen by multiple observers, including within Central Park in Manhattan, also having been reported in Manhattan, and some for Central Park were Scarlet Tanager, SUMMER Tanager, and among the less-commonly seen warblers, Worm-eating Warbler in Central Parks north end.
Further sightings or reports from within New York County -and Manhattan- include Cliff Swallow, and at-least for Governors Island, which is within New York County, Purple Martin there, and in various locations some interesting sparrows, possibly including the Ammospiza and Ammodramus genera, while these and some other reports recently are still awaiting ID-verifications. More is to be reported on in the near future, it would seem, as more interesting arrivals of various migrants are being uncovered-discovered and also being noted by more observers. Far more sightings of recent migrant arrivals are from -the 4 other counties- in N.Y. City, and the surrounding areas, with some regular-but-rarer species having shown such as Prothonotary and Yellow-throated Warblers and a lot of other species in the past week or less, many if not all of these sightings in eBird alerts.
Thanks to all of the many out in the field with optics recently and finding-reporting so much, this includes increasingly, leaders and participants on not-for-profit guided bird and nature walks in many locations, with such organizations as the -formerly known as- NY City Audubon, the American Museum of Natural History field-walks, and the Linnaean Society of New York regular spring walks, as well as for many additional non-profit organizations. Many of these walks are guided by women birders, not surprisingly, and many ages of participants are seen, with all welcomed to join on such walks - many, but not all, will require a pre-registration to join, and will sometimes, not always, include a fee which helps support these conservation and science-based organizations.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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