Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - Thursday, Sept. 14th - A Yellow-breasted Chat was seen by multiple observers at Centrals north end, at and near The Loch on Thursday, this area is about 1 mile north of the most recent prior Chat sightings.
For all of the park and all of the day, at least 24 American warbler species were found, and of those at least 21 species were in the Ramble area and close-by, as seen by many keen watchers. These included such species as Bay-breasted, Blackpoll in the multiple, Cape May, Blackburnian, Mourning, Blue-winged, Palm, Pine, Wilson’s, and modestly late Canada Warblers plus of course many many others. Various many other sightings included multiple flyover Broad-winged Hawks - the latter mostly or all in afternoon - Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Olive-sided Flycatcher, and Common Nighthawks again noted for this park. Also seen were Veery, Gray-cheeked Thrush, and ongoing numbers of Swainsons as well as Wood Thrush. Among vireos, Philadelphia again occurred Thursday and, to note again the actually-early Blue-headed Vireos of this southbound season for Central Park, we need to go back to Aug. 19, when more than 25 birders saw the species, in part with a non-profit guided bird walk and also at that date by independent observers. That early-migrant date with their observers is archived in eBird confirmed records. N.B., Philly Vireo also occurred on Thursday 9/14, at Governors Island in N.Y. County. There were nearly 100 species of birds reported for Central Park alone on Thursday, including of course many other migrants. A further report of county-wide sightings in due course. Thanks to so many quiet and sharp observers out and about on Thursday. 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/ --
