Happy Pesach (Passover) evening to many friends & colleagues. - - - - - - Monday, 10 April, 2017 - Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City
While the Glaucous Gull which was - again! - found by Peter Post (with thanks to Ardith Bondi for reporting) at the Central Park reservoir was the undoubted highlight on the day for the park, there were a couple of new arrivals: Blue-headed Vireo, & Black-and-white Warbler - each in both the Ramble area & the n. end woods, and found later in the day on Monday… also still present were the spring-plumaged Red-headed Woodpecker in its’ usual area just west of East 68th Street, a Red-necked Grebe that no one can prove is the same which was released - or not - and 2 Common Loons, these last 3 birds of 2 species at the CP reservoir, with that Glaucous in later hours. - - - It can be added that Prospect Park in Brooklyn had the 2 new-arrival species (the vireo & that warbler sp.) and perhaps these were found in some other NYC areas this day as well. Prospect with its many keen observers also again had the lingering YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER as reported by others on-scene. - - As a follow-up to the sighting of a Pileated Woodpecker in northern Manhattan on Sunday (4/9), a fair number of eager birders came to seek, including myself a bit later, but so far as all had heard & shared attempts at, the mega-rare-in-NYC woodpecker was not re-found. The search may go on at least by local birders. This latest sighting was from Fort Tryon Park, while a previously-documenterd recent sighting was at Inwood Hill Park, which is immediately north of (& a bit larger & more-wooded) than Fort Tryon Park. - - - - Today, 4/10, Braddock Bay in NY counted 3,737 birds in migration with vultures & raptors alone: 1 N. Goshawk, 2 Golden Eagles, 8 Rough-legged Hawks, 18 Red-shouldered, 190 Broad-winged, 207 Red-tailed, 33 N. Harriers & 33 Bald Eagle, as well as a Peregrine & 47 Am. Kestrel. 4 Osprey, 43 Cooper’s, 321 Sharp-shinned - but above all in numbers, 2,829 Turkey Vultures were seen & counted… the Broad-winged Hawks seen there this day were the first offically counted there in 2017. Many, many birds on the move overnight tonight… & likely more reports… ------- - WE were all once refugees... good birding, Tom Fiore manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
