Friday, 9 September, 2016 - Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City Once again, the Central Park Ramble and its vicinity did very well for migrant diversity - even as some areas north of the reservoir also did, with additional nice reports coming from areas near the reservoir to the tennis courts "patch", an area which can be very productive at times but which is generally underbirded - thanks to Peter Letourneau, Ph.D., a research scientist with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, who offered a good report for the latter two areas, and to many others who have offered reports of various species including again, some fine leaders for bird-walks offered by the American Museum of Natural History-New York, as well as some of the members and officers of the Linnaean Society of New York, and the NYC chapter of Audubon, "NYCAS" (all are non-profit org's.), & many other generous birders who gave reports and details on sightings for this day.
Of course a Virginia Rail is an interesting sighting any time in Manhattan, & one seen by many today by the edge of the Lake was a popular destination for those able to get to the site and observe it & then with the further sighting, as noted to this list! A Connecticut Warbler found at the Point in the Ramble got some theorizing whether it may be the same individual as seen in Central on Tuesday, yet (my own 2 cents) this species is not actually that "rare", rather it is very skulking & not readily found nor observed & can easily elude even very discerning observers at times - it is just as likely that this was a different individual to the one seen a bit farther east in the park 4 days prior (and the age or sex of either would not be determinative; also certainly a majority of Connecticuts seen in our region are first-year birds, not adults) - and/but, there are past instances of the same, or presumed same, CT Warbler[s] having lingered in same - very specific - area[s] for many, many days in fall migration in this region, lncluding some examples of this from Central Park. Thanks to the very many quiet & responsible birders who offered so many reports; Just some of the birds noted for Friday 9/9 in Central Park include: Pied-billed Grebe Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Canada Goose Wood Duck Gadwall American Black Duck Mallard Northern Shoveler Osprey Sharp-shinned Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Virginia Rail (as noted above) Spotted Sandpiper Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Common Nighthawk Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Yellow-shafted Flicker Eastern Wood-Pewee Empidonax [genus] Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch (12+ locations in the park, totaling many birds) White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Veery Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Blue-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler (multiple locations, again) Black-throated Blue Warbler Myrtle [aka 'form of': Yellow-rumped] Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Connecticut Warbler (as noted above - Ramble) Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler (several locations, both sexes) Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow ------------ "Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?" - Christine Ellen 'Chrissie' Hynde, a founder of The Pretenders good birding, Tom Fiore Manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
