New York County -in N.Y. City- including Manhattan, Randalls Island, Governors Island, and in this report also Roosevelt Island in the East River estuary - as well as the adjacent waters and skies above. thru Monday, Sept. 18 -
A -presumptively female-plumaged- Blue Grosbeak was photographed on Roosevelt Island on Sept. 17, by J. Marinov. There is a chance that sort of bird could linger in the bits of habitat available there. Access to that very-populated island can be by aerial tram-way from Manhattan, or by bridge from northwestern Queens County of N.Y. City. A Connecticut Warbler remained in place near the World Trade Center memorial in lower Manhattan for many birders to come see, thru rainy Sept. 18th. The species is also confirmed in eBird at Central Park for Sept. 16. Over the years, it is sometimes the Connecticut which comes to a small or more-confined area of this city that may be re-found for more viewers, whereas those in large parks, such as Central Park are sometimes lost to the shrubs, forbs and all the rest of low vegetation. The female-plumaged Golden-winged Warbler seen in the n. end of Central Park on Sunday, 9/17 by K. Fung is confirmed in eBird, that individual not noted again later. Central Park has enjoyed up to 25 spp. of American Warblers, thru Sunday, 9/17, and there were at least 2 additional spp. outside of Central in N.Y. County. In Central Park alone, such slightly late-lingering / passage species as Canada, Blue-winged, Worm-eating, and some other warblers were still to be seen. There has been a good diversity of the warblers in many areas of the county, as well, including some quite small green-spaces, and also various larger parks. Common Nighthawks were still being found in multiple venues in the county to at least Sept. 17, with the chance some more may yet pass through here. Yellow-billed Cuckoo was still being seen to Sunday, as was Solitary Sandpiper, including at Central Park. A decent showing of raptor species also has, including some Broad-winged Hawks, on multiple recent days, and those too might still be watched for, especially just-now. Olive-sided Flycatchers were still about to Sunday, including in Central Park, although E. Wood-Pewees were the more regular, while E. Phoebes continued to increase. There also were a number of Empidonax-genus flycatchers and just a relative few of those were being identified, to species. Thrushes were still inclusive of some Veery, but now greatly-reduced in numbers from a week and more prior, and Gray-cheeked type Thrushes continued along with the many Swainsons and some Wood, as well as a rather-few Hermit Thrush, still on the early-side for the latter. A few Red-breasted Nuthatches have come in with the large pushes of migrants in recent days, and perhaps more will show. The Ruby-crowned Kinglets, while still in modest numbers, were seen in multiple sites in the county, and thru swaths of always highly-birded Central Park. Sparrow diversity was still not that high just yet, even with some more Lincolns and Savannah Sparrows showing in multiple locations. The sparrows will be coming along soon in their huge numbers, however. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron still were being seen in the right areas of Randalls Island, one of the better sites to find that species in the county and where they have even made attempts at overwintering. Randalls has enjoyed a very good diversity of migrants lately on some mornings, and the same of Governors Island. Bobolinks were still being found at the latter island, out in N.Y Harbor and yet politically a part of N.Y. County, despite it being as near to Kings County / Brooklyn, as to anywhere. Many many more migrants besides those noted above have come through lately, with over 140 species of birds in the county in recent days. A good many of those species were noted by leaders of guided not-for-profit walks offered in the county, and by many volunteers working as well in not-for-profit orgs including the one we mostly still know as the Audubon chapter of N.Y.C., or NYCAS. Other guided not-for-profit walks have been held regularly by and for the Linnaean Society of New York, and for the American Museum of Natural History, N.Y. - thanks to all their walk-leaders, and to many many independent birders and photographers for sightings and photos and reports, often to the local GroupMe alerts system and of course in eBird reports and alerts as well. 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/ --
