Wed., Sept. 13th, >From reports thru the day and evening, it appeared that NO re-find of a Says >Phoebe that had been at the old landfill at the southern sector of Pelham Bay >Park, Bronx County NY, took place, for those trying. I was not on the >Bronx-scene, but did give a moderately thorough whirl all around Randall's >Island, east of Manhattan island. Some birders made forays into Bronx shore >areas, southwest of Pelham Bay, having a look. I also took a lengthy walk up >and down parts of Manhattans eastern edges, where access is permitted, well >north into east Harlem, as well as south to near the United Nations HQ area - >again where some viewing access is available without special permit, etc. - >any Phoebes seen by me were all of Eastern species. Additionally there was no >great mass of most birds for Randalls Island -which is politically part of >N.Y. County as is Manhattan island- and the de-construction zones there on >Randalls were in full-effect, with machinery and plenty of people milling >about, and a few also working. No other birders were encountered in my time >during non-rainy am to pm hours in any of these non-Bronx locations. It's not >clear than any birders were on Governors Island, if so they might have had a >chance a wandering phoebe species was stationed there. Or as-likely not.
Incidentally, the find of that Say's Phoebe was from Sunday, Sept. 10th - as eBirded by both of the original observers - it was then re-found and also photographed well by the original finder on 9/12, and seen well by others also and then seen to late-day of Sept. 12th, but was first-noted on the 10th: https://ebird.org/checklist/S149748629 ---- Unrelated to any of above, there were still at least 19 species of warblers in Central Park, in Manhattan, with modest evidence of a bit of fresh migration - also likely that a fair number of migrants were able to take off on Tues. - 9/12 - night and definitely a lot of new migration on Wed. night, 9/13, all around the area. Common Nighthawks have continued to be seen from, and over Manhattan island. Far more reports on the N.Y. County migrations on a future date. 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/ --
