[nysbirds-l] Orange-crowned Warbler, Central Park NYC - Sunday, 10/3 (+ lingering Mourning Warbler lower Manhattan)
Sunday, October 2nd - The Orange-crowned Warbler seen today at the area of West 77th St. - “triplets bridge” as locally-known, in Manhattan’s (N.Y. City) Central Park may or may not be the very 'first-of-season’ for that park or the county; more on that & other N.Y. County birds at a later time or date… Thanks also, to 2 of the region’s great naturalist-observers. (there was also a continuing, lingering adult-male Mourning Warbler reported again, where seen before, at the (Manhattan) World Trade Center memorial area; thanks to E. Guest-Consales for that update for Sunday.) good birds, 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Orange-crowned Warbler, Central Park NYC - Sunday, 10/3 (+ lingering Mourning Warbler lower Manhattan)
Sunday, October 2nd - The Orange-crowned Warbler seen today at the area of West 77th St. - “triplets bridge” as locally-known, in Manhattan’s (N.Y. City) Central Park may or may not be the very 'first-of-season’ for that park or the county; more on that & other N.Y. County birds at a later time or date… Thanks also, to 2 of the region’s great naturalist-observers. (there was also a continuing, lingering adult-male Mourning Warbler reported again, where seen before, at the (Manhattan) World Trade Center memorial area; thanks to E. Guest-Consales for that update for Sunday.) good birds, 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - Sat., 10/2 - Sparrow arrivals, Y-br. Chat, Blue Grosbeak, CT Warbler & 22 more warbler spp., etc.
New York County (in N.Y. City), including Manhattan, Randall’s, and Governors
Island[s]
Saturday, Oct. 2nd -
On Governors Island, a Nelson’s Sparrow, Yellow-breasted Chat, lingering
female-plumaged Blue Grosbeak, and at least 2 ('late-ish’) Bobolinks were found
near Fort Jay, some birds possibly seen in the morning only, while the Blue
Grosbeak (in particular) was seen through the day by multiple observers, some
arriving later on. (Thanks to Annie Barry for many of the Sat. reports from
Governors Island, with others also reporting later on). Sparrow diversity
generally was quite good there over the day on Sunday. One aspect of the
current rules for visits by the general public to Governors Island which has
been in place since it opened to the public, is that the earliest ferry boats
arriving there come just after 10 a.m. each day, and it would be great to see
that change to earlier public-hours, along with the new opening-up of the
island all-year-round to the public; many birders in particular would enjoy
being able to come and visit there a lot earlier (than 10 a.m.) on any given
day, most especially in migration seasons.
At Randall’s Island, and beginning quite early on Sunday, a nice diversity of
Sparrows were among the highlights, those included Grasshopper, Vesper,
Nelson’s and various more-regular and numerous species of sparrows, as well as
American Pipit (probably the first-of-season for *the county*, at least by
reports, although all of these latter species have been noted around the
region, esp. just recently). There were also many many more migrants &/or
visiting species seen on Randall’s by a number of observers, with
early-arriving birders (A. Cunningham, D. Aronov, J. Keane) finding many of the
noted specials & getting the word out, too - thanks to them and all later
observers and reporters! Also seen were (again) up to three Yellow-crowned
Night-Herons on Randall’s Island, as well as Black-crowned Night-Herons, Great
Egret, and many many other migrants, also seen -as was, in particular the
lingering Vesper Sparrow- by many obs. arriving there through the day on
Saturday.
At least two well-described and photographed (and rather late now) Mourning
Warblers were seen in Manhattan, one near the “World Trade Center memorial”
area, and one at the north end of Central Park, on Saturday, 10/2. The latter
was seen by multiple observers. This species is typically beginning to move
south from breeding areas in mid-Aug. (occasionally earlier) and can be
somewhat numerous (if shy & reclusive by nature & habit, thus regularly
under-reported almost everywhere it passes & in all seasons, but more so in
“fall” season, when not likely at all to be singing) in later August & the
first week or so of Sept. in most years. [N.B. - birds suspected of, or
thought to be ‘Mourning’, in October & onward into winter should be
closely-scrutinized in the eastern U.S. for the possibility of vagrant
MacGillivray’s Warbler, a species that is very rare-but-regular in the east,
including in N.Y. City, mostly found late or even very late in the “fall”
season here, if detected!]
A Connecticut Warbler was reported, with good details, near The Pool in Central
Park’s n. end on Saturday, with at least several observers. Among all the many
warbler species being seen around the county on Saturday, Blackpoll Warbler was
again very widespread and in some locations, the most-numerous of all, although
that varied a lot by location, some sites seeing more of a few of the other
fairly-common-now of the warbler species, such as Myrtle / Yellow-rumped,
and/or Palm Warbler, and/or Common Yellowthoat, for 3 examples. In a few
locations, even Magnolia was seen as the more-common of the warblers on Sunday;
a lot of variability from one site to another (and that can happen within even
just short distances in some cases).
The following 23 species of American Warblers were seen, by many, many
observers all through the day in N.Y. County - and for Saturday, 10/2, ALL of
these 23 species were seen in Central Park with its esp. high numbers of quiet
and patient observers out & about through the day there:
Connecticut Warbler (one, at Central Park)
Mourning Warbler (at least 2, now-quite-late individuals, as noted above, one
in lower Manhattan and one at Central Park, each well-documented)
Tennessee Warbler (multiple)
Nashville Warbler (multiple)
Northern Parula (multiple)
Yellow Warbler (multiple)
Chestnut-sided Warbler (scant, as would be expected by this date)
Magnolia Warbler (many in some particular locations)
Cape May Warbler (multiple)
Black-throated Blue Warbler (multiple)
Myrtle/Yellow-rumped Warbler (many in many locations)
Black-throated Green Warbler (multiple)
Pine Warbler (multiple)
Prairie Warbler (multiple, but not many)
Palm Warbler (many in many locations)
Bay-breasted Warbler (multiple, but far-fewer than the next species in list)
Blackpoll Warbler (many
[nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - Sat., 10/2 - Sparrow arrivals, Y-br. Chat, Blue Grosbeak, CT Warbler & 22 more warbler spp., etc.
New York County (in N.Y. City), including Manhattan, Randall’s, and Governors
Island[s]
Saturday, Oct. 2nd -
On Governors Island, a Nelson’s Sparrow, Yellow-breasted Chat, lingering
female-plumaged Blue Grosbeak, and at least 2 ('late-ish’) Bobolinks were found
near Fort Jay, some birds possibly seen in the morning only, while the Blue
Grosbeak (in particular) was seen through the day by multiple observers, some
arriving later on. (Thanks to Annie Barry for many of the Sat. reports from
Governors Island, with others also reporting later on). Sparrow diversity
generally was quite good there over the day on Sunday. One aspect of the
current rules for visits by the general public to Governors Island which has
been in place since it opened to the public, is that the earliest ferry boats
arriving there come just after 10 a.m. each day, and it would be great to see
that change to earlier public-hours, along with the new opening-up of the
island all-year-round to the public; many birders in particular would enjoy
being able to come and visit there a lot earlier (than 10 a.m.) on any given
day, most especially in migration seasons.
At Randall’s Island, and beginning quite early on Sunday, a nice diversity of
Sparrows were among the highlights, those included Grasshopper, Vesper,
Nelson’s and various more-regular and numerous species of sparrows, as well as
American Pipit (probably the first-of-season for *the county*, at least by
reports, although all of these latter species have been noted around the
region, esp. just recently). There were also many many more migrants &/or
visiting species seen on Randall’s by a number of observers, with
early-arriving birders (A. Cunningham, D. Aronov, J. Keane) finding many of the
noted specials & getting the word out, too - thanks to them and all later
observers and reporters! Also seen were (again) up to three Yellow-crowned
Night-Herons on Randall’s Island, as well as Black-crowned Night-Herons, Great
Egret, and many many other migrants, also seen -as was, in particular the
lingering Vesper Sparrow- by many obs. arriving there through the day on
Saturday.
At least two well-described and photographed (and rather late now) Mourning
Warblers were seen in Manhattan, one near the “World Trade Center memorial”
area, and one at the north end of Central Park, on Saturday, 10/2. The latter
was seen by multiple observers. This species is typically beginning to move
south from breeding areas in mid-Aug. (occasionally earlier) and can be
somewhat numerous (if shy & reclusive by nature & habit, thus regularly
under-reported almost everywhere it passes & in all seasons, but more so in
“fall” season, when not likely at all to be singing) in later August & the
first week or so of Sept. in most years. [N.B. - birds suspected of, or
thought to be ‘Mourning’, in October & onward into winter should be
closely-scrutinized in the eastern U.S. for the possibility of vagrant
MacGillivray’s Warbler, a species that is very rare-but-regular in the east,
including in N.Y. City, mostly found late or even very late in the “fall”
season here, if detected!]
A Connecticut Warbler was reported, with good details, near The Pool in Central
Park’s n. end on Saturday, with at least several observers. Among all the many
warbler species being seen around the county on Saturday, Blackpoll Warbler was
again very widespread and in some locations, the most-numerous of all, although
that varied a lot by location, some sites seeing more of a few of the other
fairly-common-now of the warbler species, such as Myrtle / Yellow-rumped,
and/or Palm Warbler, and/or Common Yellowthoat, for 3 examples. In a few
locations, even Magnolia was seen as the more-common of the warblers on Sunday;
a lot of variability from one site to another (and that can happen within even
just short distances in some cases).
The following 23 species of American Warblers were seen, by many, many
observers all through the day in N.Y. County - and for Saturday, 10/2, ALL of
these 23 species were seen in Central Park with its esp. high numbers of quiet
and patient observers out & about through the day there:
Connecticut Warbler (one, at Central Park)
Mourning Warbler (at least 2, now-quite-late individuals, as noted above, one
in lower Manhattan and one at Central Park, each well-documented)
Tennessee Warbler (multiple)
Nashville Warbler (multiple)
Northern Parula (multiple)
Yellow Warbler (multiple)
Chestnut-sided Warbler (scant, as would be expected by this date)
Magnolia Warbler (many in some particular locations)
Cape May Warbler (multiple)
Black-throated Blue Warbler (multiple)
Myrtle/Yellow-rumped Warbler (many in many locations)
Black-throated Green Warbler (multiple)
Pine Warbler (multiple)
Prairie Warbler (multiple, but not many)
Palm Warbler (many in many locations)
Bay-breasted Warbler (multiple, but far-fewer than the next species in list)
Blackpoll Warbler (many
