Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - thru Friday, Sept. 8th - There were still up to 18 warbler species present in Central Park on Friday, fewer than found the day-before, and fewer still than in preceding days. Among those species seen in the park on Friday were Blackburnian Warblers, one of which, in the Ramble area was seen by multiple observers on Friday, who had promptly reported that and many more migrants within eBird lists and which were publicly available to all within less than an hour; in addition most keen active observers in Manhattan, of recent years to the present are making use of the GroupMe alert systems (for Manhattan and Central Park, and also more-broadly across this continent, for local alerts) and those alerts are instantaneous to all who choose to receive them. Additionally, there is no longer any 'app' once-known as "twitter", the name of that app was changed by the new corporate owner to the letter "X" and some birders have chosen to no longer use that app at all, for a variety of reasons, in context of Manhattan-birding, simply because of the more-efficient and reliable alternative. Other spp. of warblers seen on Friday at Central park included Bay-breasted, Cape May, Palm, Blackpoll, Tennessee, Wilsons, and many others. Some of the warblers were still around in fairly good numbers, as found throughout the entire park and by many active observers, recently again including on walks guided by those working with well-regarded not-for-profit organizations and institutions of this city.
In just the past few nights, migrations had slowed, however in the prior week to at least Wed. night / Thursday morning, much migration was occurring, amounting to millions of birds for the past week or so crossing over Manhattan and N.Y. City overnight on successive nights: this was a very active period of strong migration, including for many songbirds, slowing only in the last couple of nights. To be clear, not all of those vast numbers of migrants were settling down within this city or on Manhattan, as so many overflew the area on successive nights, yet there were many indications of some of the ongoing movement. One interesting not-that-well studied aspect were of some of the gray-cheeked type thrushes stopping in (on Manhattan) of which not all could be definitively assigned to the nominate, or Gray-cheeked, some perhaps being the near look-alike thrush which breeds closer to this region. Many boreal and more-northerly-breeding species have been on the move slightly earlier than their typical, averaged peak-migration timings of recent years. Further reports for all of N.Y. County -in N.Y. City- to come. Good 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/ --
