A link to image of a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher seen at Lake Shore marshes W.M.A., in Wayne County, NY on 4/21: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/560906961 Another Scissor-tailed Flycatcher was reported the same day from the Derby Hill hawkwatch in Oswego County, NY.
____ New York County (in N.Y. City), including Manhattan, Randall’s Island and Governors Island - Friday, April 21st - to Earth Day Saturday, April 22nd - The female-type PAINTED BUNTING has continued in the same area, around the Loch in the northern sector of Central Park (in Manhattan), into Saturday, 4/22. Once again, at times this green-overall bird can be tough to pick out whether up in leafy-trees or shrubbery, or even on the ground, in the areas it’s been favoring. Patience and quiet both will help in locating and viewing this rarity. And while in that area, one of the several Hooded Warblers in Central Park may also be listened-for, and hopefully, seen as well. The Evening Grosbeak[s] of Friday may have moved on but there is a fair chance that one or more of the latter species are still in that park, and/or in the county. Below, a link to the photograph (now archived in the Macaulay Library) of a Pileated Woodpecker at Inwood Hill Park on Friday, 4/21 (always a very special bird to see on Manhattan island - this northern part of the island is where that woodpecker species is most “regular” - of any place that claim multiple sightings over the decades, which Inwood Hill can). This individual was reported previously, including a sighting from the day before in that park, on 4/20. https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/560706701 Governors Island had a good variety of species seen Friday, among the many were 2 flyover Black Vultures; Great Crested Flycatcher was also seen there; both species were well-photographed by two separate observers. Randall’s Island had a good variety of species as well, and among many were 2 American Oystercatchers, also photograped from Randall’s although the birds themselves were on an outlying island (for which a scope is essential). Also seen the same day was Eastern Meadowlark, perhaps only as a fly-over, although that species could and has stopped off there on migrations, as well. At Central Park (in Manhattan) at least 17 species of warblers were noted; in addition to those 17 species were at least 2 additional, in other locations in the county, with a Hooded Warbler at The Battery, and 2 Orange-crowned Warblers remaining at their (over-wintered) areas of Randall’s Island. A Worm-eating Warbler at Highbridge Park, in northern Manhattan was a nice find there, in addition to Worm-eatings elsewhere including in Central Park. The only species of regularly-occuring vireo *not* to have shown so far this spring in Central Park (or in N.Y. County) is the Philadelphia; newly-arrived was Warbling Vireo, with the others being seen this past week, and some to Friday: White-eyed, Red-eyed, Yellow-throated, and ongoing multiple Blue Headed Vireos. All five of the vireos were seen as-of Friday in Central Park (and all 5 of those are continuing into Saturday, 4/22). There were already more than 20 species of warblers in Central Park alone for Saturday - Happy Earth Day - 4/22, and many many other migrants there, and certainly in a lot of other sites in the county as well. (Further reports to follow up with.) Ovenbird, Worm-eating Warbler, Louisiana Waterthrush, Northern Waterthrush, Blue-winged Warbler, Brewster's Warbler (hybrid), Black-and-white Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Hooded Warbler, American Redstart, Cape May Warbler, Northern Parula, Magnolia Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Palm Warbler, Pine Warbler, Myrtle/Yellow-rumped Warbler, Prairie Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler - and it’s reasonably-likely at least one or two more species of warblers may be among this wealth of warbler arrrival. 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/ --
