New York County, including Manhattan - Monday, April 5th: The female Western Tanager was still in Carl Schurz Park, east of East End Ave.
Light additional migration overnight (Sun.-Mon.) included the appearance of the 2nd Eastern Meadowlark in the county in the past week (first one was on Roosevelt Island), this latest in Central Park’s north end, by the Meer (E. Paredes, finder & first reporting) and seen by multiple observers over the afternoon; also with a little drama, as a local Red-tailed Hawk made a serious effort after it; the meadowlark managed to avoid that attack & later returned to the area where first seen. Also showing at the n. end of Central were several Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, & an overwintered Lincoln’s Sparrow also continued there. Light additional sparrow movement, with more Field Sparrows around in multiple locations, including lower Manhattan. At least a few Snowy Egrets have started to show in the county, with several sightings at Randall’s Island & by Monday, several flyovers on the typical west-east / east-west flyway used by these & the also-regular Great Egrets, esp. seen at Central Park’s n. end or from adjacent areas in Manhattan (i.e. streets in the 90’s-100’s, thru around 125th St. at times). Warblers that have continued in Central Park were all that had been seen as well on Sunday: Northern Parula (early), Louisiana Waterthrush, Pine, Palm, & Yellow-rumped [Myrtle] Warblers. As noted briefly in a prior report at least a few Purple Finches have been in with more perhaps to come. A Pine Siskin was reported at Central Park on 4/3. Many more species also present to Monday, 4/5 around the county: Canada Goose [Atlantic] Brant Wood Duck (Central Park) Gadwall American Black Duck Mallard Northern Shoveler Bufflehead Hooded Merganser (Central Park reservoir) Red-breasted Merganser (multiple locations) Ruddy Duck Red-throated Loon Common Loon Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret (few, fly-overs) Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Randall’s Island) Turkey Vulture Black Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Coot (Central Park, reservoir) Killdeer (few) Ring-billed Gull [American] Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull ['feral'] Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon multi-owls Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Yellow-shafted Flicker Eastern Phoebe Blue Jay Common Raven American Crow Fish Crow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling House Sparrow Western Tanager (female at Carl Schurz Park) Eastern Towhee Slate-colored Junco Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow [Red] Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow (at least one overwintered, ongoing in Central Park) Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Louisiana Waterthrush (Central Park) Northern Parula (2 locations, Central Park) Yellow-rumped [Myrtle] Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler (Orange-crowned Warbler - not noted, but may still be at Carl Schurz Park) Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark (Central Park, n. end) Rusty Blackbird (at least one lingering, Central Park) Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Purple Finch House Finch American Goldfinch …. Butterflies again seen were Cabbage White, E. Comma, and Mourning Cloak. More & more trees showing green buds, and further blooming each day - many cherries are out in full bloom and many magnolias soon will be, along with various other blooms. Some native early spring wildflowers are showing blooms & buds, in addition to the widespread ornamental flowering plants. good birding to all, 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/ --
