Friday the 13th of May, 2016
Not to be forgotten at Central Park's reservoir today -late in the day
with some showers falling- I walked the full reservoir loop, &
photographed a lone male Northern Shoveler, 2 Ruddy Ducks, and a drake
Bufflehead, as well as having seen the long-lingering Wood Duck
elsewhere in the park, and "usual" multiple Gadwall as well as the
most common, resident waterbirds. A very modest no. of swallows were
seen including at least one Bank Swallow with the typical Barn &
N.Rough-winged over the reservoir. There were still good numbers of
some species of land-bird migrants, & a reasonable variety.
Also, at Riverside Park (also in Manhattan, on the far west side) &
mainly in the northern-most woods areas, I found 18 Warbler species,
and a fair variety of other spp. of migrants. I did not find a Blue
Grosbeak which had been seen there the day before by others... but
that & many other migrants could well have been present. There are
still a lot of migrants yet to come along.
I had a morning look for the Seaside Sparrows where they'd been
earlier in the week, but came up empty on this Friday. Hopefully they
got to a good salt-marsh area.
good weekend birds,
Tom Fiore
Manhattan
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