New York County (in N.Y. City), including Manhattan, Randall’s Island, and Governors Island Sunday to Wed., Sept. 25th thru 28th -
A Red-headed Woodpecker was seen at Battery Park in lower Manhattan on a not-for-profit guided bird walk with NYCAS (N.Y. City Audubon) on Wed., 9/28. In Central Park, on the same day, a Vesper Sparrow was found (Kyu Lee) and also soon re-found. A Clay-colored Sparrow was seen (D. Aronov, T. Healy) on Tues., 9/27 at Randall’s Island, and the same two finders also recorded Red-headed Woodpecker and at least 15 warbler spp. on the day at Randall’s, along with multitudinous other migrants. On Mon., 9/26, at Governors Island, 3 observers saw a Red-headed Woodpecker, a photographed (late) Veery, and at least 16 warbler spp. along with many other migrants there. At Central Park and during a not-for-profit Linnaean Society of N.Y. guided bird walk on Tues., 9/27, a male Summer Tanager was seen by many; this species also seen that same day at a location not very far from the morning’s discovery, thus possibly the same individual having moved. A Connecticut Warbler was photographed (P. Markee) in Central Park the same day, seen by at least one other observer but possibly disappearing for others who sought at that time in same area. Also at Central Park, a Yellow-breasted Chat was found (A. Kramer) around the Summit Rock area, and was seen again by others later the same Tuesday, 9/27. On the prior day that observer found a Blue Grosbeak in Central Park’s north end by the plant nursery (adjoins the park’s compost area) and that bird also was seen later in that day by others. On Sunday, 9/25, a Connecticut Warbler was found (J. Wooten) at Central Park’s north end (north of the ‘Pool’) and was also likely to have been the same bird photographed later (M. Waldron) as well as being seen by others on Sunday. ... Thinking of all life coming thru the major storm in Florida and the U.S. Southeast, including human, avian, and all other life forms. Peaceful 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/ --
