New York County (in New York City), including Manhattan -with Central Park- and Randalls and Governors Island[s] - mainly from Thursday-Friday, Aug. 24th-25th -
Among highlights for numbers of observers was Wilsons Snipe, seen in Central Park (where it is near-annual but in some years very skulking) first on Thursday at The Pool, then by Friday presumed that same snipe in the nearby Loch, both areas within the north sector of that park. Wilson’s Snipe also occur in the expected periods of passage on Randalls Island and elsewhere in the county with some regularity - however, regularity does not mean always seen * by very many * birders here. A Prothonotary Warbler seen by many observers on Thursday at the Ramble in Central Park was NOT found again the following day anywhere in the county. Various many other warbler species did continue for Friday, including such species as Nashville, Tennessee, Worm-eating, Blackburnian, Canada, Blue-winged, Bay-breasted, Magnolia, Prairie, Wilsons, and many of Cape May as well as at least sixteen more warbler species for the day in this county; all of those species also being found within Central Park as well as multiple other locations for some spp. The most-regularly seen species of warbler again likely American Redstart, with some of them seen even in street trees and in multiple smaller greenspaces. Going back about one week, on Aug. 19th, modestly early Blue-headed Vireo was among the spate of somewhat early returnees from nesting-grounds, at least one or two of that vireo being found in Central Park for that date, and having been confirmed as well by eBird reviews after a short delay. We have had modest numbers of Swainsons Thrushes come in, with one (amongst others) very nicely-photographed on Governors Island on Aug. 23 (C. Weiner), while a few others of that species had been seen earlier in the county. More of the most-recent sightings from around N.Y. County, below - Canada Goose Mute Swan Wood Duck Northern Shoveler Gadwall Mallard American Black Duck Green-winged Teal Rock Dove Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk Eastern Whip-poor-will Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Least Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Spotted Sandpiper Solitary SandpIper Tringa sp. / large shorebird sp. shorebird sp. (peep types) Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull [American] Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Common Tern Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey Cooper's Hawk Bald Eagle Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Eurasian Eagle-Owl (escaped from captivity, ongoing) Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Yellow-shafted Flicker American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traills Flycatcher) Eastern Kingbird Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo (as of Aug. 19, noted above) Philadelphia Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow American/Fish Crow Common Raven Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Northern Rough-winged Swallow new world martin sp. (Progne sp.) Tree Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Blue-gray Gnatcatcher House Wren Carolina Wren European Starling Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Northern Mockingbird Veery Swainsons Thrush Hermit Thrush Catharus sp. (brown-backed thrush species) Wood Thrush American Robin Cedar Waxwing House Sparrow House Finch American Goldfinch Chipping Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Lincoln's/Swamp Sparrow Eastern Towhee Bobolink Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Red-winged Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Common Grackle - Ovenbird Worm-eating Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Northern Waterthrush Blue-winged Warbler Brewsters Warbler (hybrid) Black-and-white Warbler Prothonotary Warbler (Aug. 24, Central Park Ramble area, not reported again for Aug. 25) Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler American Redstart Cape May Warbler Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Bay-breasted/Blackpoll Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Pine Warbler [Myrtle] Yellow-rumped Warbler Prairie Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Canada Warbler Wilson's Warbler - Scarlet Tanager Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting - and likely some additional species. Thanks to many quiet and keen observers out and about in various types of recent weather and at all times of day, from around first-light to after dusk. 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/ --
