Wednesday-Thursday-Friday, 18-19-20 July, 2018 - Manhattan island sites including (esp.) Central Park (N.Y. City)
Thanks to some dedicated summer observers; this is a part of the season when not just waders (a.k.a. shorebirds) are on the move. There was a fair amount of widely dispersed southbound migration on the cool front of late Tuesday night into Wed. and far more so with Wednesday night’s crisper air delivered on winds from the northerly direction… & still more arrivals, passage, & drop-ins for Friday, 7/20… a very chilly night in the far north for Thursday. Ten days after the first sightings of a (Louisiana) Waterthrush in Central Park, both waterthrush species have appeared and in the multiple, as have Yellow Warbler, American Redstart, and Black-and-White Warbler. One dozen species of Warbler have now appeared, which is neither unusual or at all surprising for this time period, & given the recent cool front over several days. Some sightings this week also included the same lingering-summering species of warblers, such as Magnolia, while some may/do represent freshly arrived southbound migrant drop-ins. The latter is so of some of the Swallow species, perhaps of (some of) all including greater numbers of Barn. Most unexpected migrant, Veery - but that perhaps from a relatively nearby breeding area, &/or an individual that did not breed. It is still not widely understod how “early” many species (besides waders / shorebirds) return south, and that: it is not in fact “early” at all for many, but about the norm. This includes mid-summer movements of icterids of several species. A so-far modest (and continent-wide) incursion or irruption of Red-breasted Nuthatch continues. a very lightly-annotated list: Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron (migrants) Great Egret Snowy Egret Green Heron (nested) Black-crowned Night-Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose (nested) Wood Duck Gadwall American Black Duck Mallard (nested) Northern Shoveler Osprey Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk (nested) Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull [American] Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull ['feral'] Rock Pigeon (superabundant city resident-breeder) Mourning Dove (nested) American Kestrel (nested) Peregrine Falcon (nested) Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Chimney Swift (uncommon nester) Ruby-throated Hummingbird Red-bellied Woodpecker (nested) Downy Woodpecker (nested) Hairy Woodpecker (nested) Yellow-shafted Flicker (nested) Eastern Wood-Pewee (nested) Empidonax [genus] Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher (nested) Eastern Kingbird (nested) Warbling Vireo (nested) Red-eyed Vireo (nested) Blue Jay (nested) American Crow (nested) Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow (nested) Black-capped Chickadee (nested) Tufted Titmouse (nested) Red-breasted Nuthatch (additional to some that may also be lingering in past 6 weeks) White-breasted Nuthatch (nested) Carolina Wren (nested) House Wren (nested) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (nested) Veery (unusual here in July) Wood Thrush (nested) American Robin (nested) Gray Catbird (nested) Northern Mockingbird (nested) Brown Thrasher (nested) European Starling (superabundant city resident) Cedar Waxwing (nested) - Blue-winged Warbler (northern Manhattan) Northern Parula (2 locations) Yellow Warbler (nested - northern Manhattan, as is typical) Magnolia Warbler (summering male, Central Park) Blackburnian Warbler (male) Prairie Warbler (Thurs., 7/19) Black-and-white Warbler (several) American Redstart (multiple) Worm-eating Warbler (2 locations) Northern Waterthrush (multiple) Louisiana Waterthrush (several) Common Yellowthroat (nested - multiple areas, as is typical) - Eastern Towhee (nested) Chipping Sparrow (nested, including several pairs in Central Park) Song Sparrow (nested) Swamp Sparrow (lingering non-breeding bird at Central Park) White-throated Sparrow (lingering & non-breeding birds) Northern Cardinal (nested) Rose-breasted Grosbeak (northern Manhattan - breeding likely) Bobolink (morning fly-bys) Red-winged Blackbird (additional to modest no’s. of breeders) Common Grackle (nested, and likely some that were moving) Brown-headed Cowbird (prob. parasite activity, multiple areas) Orchard Oriole (nested) Baltimore Oriole (nested, and some males probably moving as well) House Finch (nested) American Goldfinch (scarce, nested) House Sparrow (superabundant city resident) - - - - - - "I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good." ― Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Good -and ethical, quiet- birding to all, Tom Fiore [New York] -- 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/ --
