Manhattan, N.Y. City - Wednesday & Thursday, May 11th & 12th - The vocal Bicknell’s Thrush was ongoing & rather cooperative for many who came to see and hear on through May 12th, at Central Park’s n. end. Excellent teamwork by all and in particular the understanding that use of devices to “force’ this or other migrants to show themselves, to sing or to call is unnecessary in a very public and very populated urban park, and can be both detrimental to understanding the complexties of migrant birds’ lives in situ, as well as very-often counterproductive in giving all hopefuls (amongst observers) an equal, fair chance at ‘unforced’ observation of a wild, free, & unrestrained bird (and for multiple other reasons which need not all be elaborated).
A male Cerulean Warblers which was video- and audio-recorded was found at Fort Tryon Park - in n. Manhattan - early Thursday morning, and the 2nd of the day (for Manhattan) of the same species & gender was found at Central Park (near the Summit Rock area, off C.P. West & W. 83-84th Streets) with the latter having many many observers all day later on Thursday. The early-Thursday Ft. Tryon Park Cerulean visually recorded (and archived in the Macaulay Library) by M. Waldron. The Cerulean Warbler for Central Park (which was nicely photographed by some of our very experienced photographer-birders, some photos also in the Macaulay Library) brought to at least 33 species of confirmed American warblers this year for that park all of which seen by many, and all of the ‘rarer' species of those seen by some hundreds of observers (per individual birds). In addition to the ongoing May 11th (Wed.) Yellow-breasted Chat at Central Park’s n. end, an Eastern Meadowlark (rather late for this county & site, and uncommon in general for this county) was seen by some who were in that area of the park, along with so many other migrants. Additions to come. 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/ --
