Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - Friday, April 30th - The rather-rare (for Manhattan, at the least!) trio of grosbeaks (in three different genera, mind you) have been found this breezy but nice & crisp Friday, with ongoing Evening Grosbeaks - some photographed again - and the expected Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, plus the fresh addition of a female-plumaged Blue Grosbeak in the Ramble area - indeed, all 3 of these grosbeak species could be seen within the Ramble on Friday, & the last time I am *sure* that that happened, it was the late very great Richard Gershon of Manhattan who commented to a few of us that he had achieved the ‘hat-trick’ trio of grosbeak species… & I believe, even had the 3 species without much need to swivel the head or binoculars. Thanks to M. Waldron for the initial heads-up & photo of the Blue bigbeak for Central Park’s Ramble on 4/30/’21…. to my knowledge, the 1st of that species for the county this year… lots & lots of other ongoing migrants, and equally likely a few more new to the year, may still be uncovered before May arrives. An interesting ‘orange variant’ Scarlet Tanager (male with orange coloration) was noted by G. Willow on his Friday a.m. guided walk in Central Park, along with one dozen warblers for that a.m. group-walk. At least one Solitary Sandpiper was ongoing by The Pool in Central Park’s n.w. sector, thanks to E. Peterson for an early find on that as well as a lingering Eve. Grosbeak in the N. Woods, each of those nicely photo’d by multiple later observers, as well.
Yellow-Throated Warbler is also ongoing for Friday in the Central Park Ramble as it’s been for now 4 days. And, along with the (so far, ‘just’ the one) Blue Grosbeak are a fair number of Indigo Buntings, some in full-on bright plumage, some less so & some are apparent females. Red-breasted Nuthatches & some Purple Finches are ongoing, in the multiple - and a lot of great birds are additionally being found throughout the county, for Friday. Happy May 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/ --
