[nysbirds-l] Prothonotary Warbler, Central Park, NYC Monday 4/22

[Thomas Fiore]

Monday, 22 April, 2019 -
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City

I discovered a  male Prothonotary Warbler around 4:30 pm on a rather rainy 
afternoon, at The Pond in the southeastern corner of the park, seen by chance 
on a walk not really seeking birds (and no bins in hand); luckily, a few others 
could be alerted & with word getting out, a fair number of other birders got to 
see the Prothontary in the late hours of the day. It spent a good deal of time 
by the stone bridge at the N. side of the main pond, known as Gapstow bridge, 
and was feeding a lot near the water, occasionally into low branches near 
there, including near all 4 “corners” of this small stone arched foot bridge. 
The location is very near Fifth Avenue & about E. 61st Street, a bit west into 
the park from there, & is also a very popular tourist destination for sky-line 
photos & such. I was with Kristine Wallstrom who helped me get the word out, & 
also helped to get some photos with a pocket camera. As we departed, more 
birders were arriving.  Hopefully, it may stay over a while, and give more 
seekers a chance to view. N.B., all of the pond edges & crannies could be 
checked, should the warbler not be in evidence on further search.

- - 
(a p.s. on a bird-banding code used by me; I realized a few minutes late that a 
code for American Golden Plover is not normally AMGO - Mea culpa.)

good luck,

Tom Fiore
manhattan
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[nysbirds-l] Prothonotary Warbler, Central Park, NYC Monday 4/22

[Thomas Fiore]

Monday, 22 April, 2019 -
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City

I discovered a  male Prothonotary Warbler around 4:30 pm on a rather rainy 
afternoon, at The Pond in the southeastern corner of the park, seen by chance 
on a walk not really seeking birds (and no bins in hand); luckily, a few others 
could be alerted & with word getting out, a fair number of other birders got to 
see the Prothontary in the late hours of the day. It spent a good deal of time 
by the stone bridge at the N. side of the main pond, known as Gapstow bridge, 
and was feeding a lot near the water, occasionally into low branches near 
there, including near all 4 “corners” of this small stone arched foot bridge. 
The location is very near Fifth Avenue & about E. 61st Street, a bit west into 
the park from there, & is also a very popular tourist destination for sky-line 
photos & such. I was with Kristine Wallstrom who helped me get the word out, & 
also helped to get some photos with a pocket camera. As we departed, more 
birders were arriving.  Hopefully, it may stay over a while, and give more 
seekers a chance to view. N.B., all of the pond edges & crannies could be 
checked, should the warbler not be in evidence on further search.

- - 
(a p.s. on a bird-banding code used by me; I realized a few minutes late that a 
code for American Golden Plover is not normally AMGO - Mea culpa.)

good luck,

Tom Fiore
manhattan
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[nysbirds-l] The Slingshot

[Shaibal Mitra]

Pat and I birded various of our haunts in Rhode Island today and eventually 
found two Indigo Buntings, as well newly arrived Gray Catbirds at multiple 
outer coastal sites (and one Common Yellowthroat)--the earliest I can ever 
recall in RI for these most strongly stereotyped of spring arrivals.

People have been inquiring about what we mean by a "slingshot event"--it's not 
the same as a regular spring fallout. I found this note from two years ago that 
explains the idea a little bit and includes a link to a more detailed 
explanation.

We haven't had time to look into things yet, but it appears that this most 
recent event extended from the Canadian Maritimes to RI, at least.

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore

From: bounce-121480864-11143...@list.cornell.edu 
[bounce-121480864-11143...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Shaibal Mitra 
[shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu]
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2017 8:47 PM
To: NYSBIRDS (NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu)
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Hooded Warblers and the Slingshot

An unusual number of Hooded Warblers were found on Long Island and vicinity 
today, in conjunction with Blue Grosbeaks and Summer Tanagers--and also 
seasonally early examples of female Indigo Buntings and Rose-breasted 
Grosbeaks. In contrast, the migrant species typically most abundant at this 
date--Myrtle & Palm Warblers, Savannah & White-throated Sparrows, etc.--were 
present in at best modest numbers at Long Island's migrant traps today. This 
disparity is the signature of a slingshot event, set in motion days ago and 
hundreds of miles away, with the displacement of trans-Gulf migrants over the 
Atlantic.

Please be sure to report or eBird all Hooded Warblers seen in coastal New York, 
so that an accurate total can be tabulated.

Whereas most rare-scarce warblers in southeastern NYS tend to occur during the 
biggest spring flights of common warblers, Hooded and Prothonotary tend to 
occur here in association with grosbeaks and tanagers, on otherwise slow days. 
For a discussion of slingshots and different kinds of spring flights, see:

http://www.nybirds.org/KBsearch/y2005v55n3/y2005v55n3p213-227mitra.pdf#

Shai Mitra
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[nysbirds-l] The Slingshot

[Shaibal Mitra]

Pat and I birded various of our haunts in Rhode Island today and eventually 
found two Indigo Buntings, as well newly arrived Gray Catbirds at multiple 
outer coastal sites (and one Common Yellowthroat)--the earliest I can ever 
recall in RI for these most strongly stereotyped of spring arrivals.

People have been inquiring about what we mean by a "slingshot event"--it's not 
the same as a regular spring fallout. I found this note from two years ago that 
explains the idea a little bit and includes a link to a more detailed 
explanation.

We haven't had time to look into things yet, but it appears that this most 
recent event extended from the Canadian Maritimes to RI, at least.

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore

From: bounce-121480864-11143...@list.cornell.edu 
[bounce-121480864-11143...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Shaibal Mitra 
[shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu]
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2017 8:47 PM
To: NYSBIRDS (NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu)
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Hooded Warblers and the Slingshot

An unusual number of Hooded Warblers were found on Long Island and vicinity 
today, in conjunction with Blue Grosbeaks and Summer Tanagers--and also 
seasonally early examples of female Indigo Buntings and Rose-breasted 
Grosbeaks. In contrast, the migrant species typically most abundant at this 
date--Myrtle & Palm Warblers, Savannah & White-throated Sparrows, etc.--were 
present in at best modest numbers at Long Island's migrant traps today. This 
disparity is the signature of a slingshot event, set in motion days ago and 
hundreds of miles away, with the displacement of trans-Gulf migrants over the 
Atlantic.

Please be sure to report or eBird all Hooded Warblers seen in coastal New York, 
so that an accurate total can be tabulated.

Whereas most rare-scarce warblers in southeastern NYS tend to occur during the 
biggest spring flights of common warblers, Hooded and Prothonotary tend to 
occur here in association with grosbeaks and tanagers, on otherwise slow days. 
For a discussion of slingshots and different kinds of spring flights, see:

http://www.nybirds.org/KBsearch/y2005v55n3/y2005v55n3p213-227mitra.pdf#

Shai Mitra
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[nysbirds-l] Four Harbors Audubon Lecture - World Birding: Travels and Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist

[Patrice Domeischel]

Please join Four Harbors Audubon Society, tomorrow evening, Tuesday, April 23, 
2019, for our spring lecture, World Birding: Travels and Reflections of an 
Evolutionary Biologist, presented by Douglas Futuyma.
 
More and more birders have been expanding their quest beyond their home area to 
the entire country and to the great wide world. In this talk, Doug Futuyma will 
share some of the thrill and satisfaction of seeing exotic species in exotic 
environments, from rain forest cassowaries to subantarctic albatrosses and 
desert larks. He will also pose and partly answer some of the questions that 
these experiences prompt about evolution. Why have some groups of birds 
diversified more than others? How do new species form? How can we account for 
giant flightless birds on all the southern continents? Why are there so many 
more species of birds in the tropics? Doug will aim to show that esthetic 
appreciation and scientific understanding together can enrich the experience of 
birding.
 
Douglas J. Futuyma is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Ecology and 
Evolution at Stony Brook University. His research concerns speciation and the 
evolution of interactions between species, especially herbivorous insects and 
their host plants.

The presentation will be held at 6:30 p.m. at Emma S. Clark Memorial Library, 
120 Main Street, Setauket, NY.  Free and open to all.  For additional 
information or to reserve, please email: fourharborshe...@gmail.com.

Patrice Domeischel
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[nysbirds-l] Four Harbors Audubon Lecture - World Birding: Travels and Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist

[Patrice Domeischel]

Please join Four Harbors Audubon Society, tomorrow evening, Tuesday, April 23, 
2019, for our spring lecture, World Birding: Travels and Reflections of an 
Evolutionary Biologist, presented by Douglas Futuyma.
 
More and more birders have been expanding their quest beyond their home area to 
the entire country and to the great wide world. In this talk, Doug Futuyma will 
share some of the thrill and satisfaction of seeing exotic species in exotic 
environments, from rain forest cassowaries to subantarctic albatrosses and 
desert larks. He will also pose and partly answer some of the questions that 
these experiences prompt about evolution. Why have some groups of birds 
diversified more than others? How do new species form? How can we account for 
giant flightless birds on all the southern continents? Why are there so many 
more species of birds in the tropics? Doug will aim to show that esthetic 
appreciation and scientific understanding together can enrich the experience of 
birding.
 
Douglas J. Futuyma is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Ecology and 
Evolution at Stony Brook University. His research concerns speciation and the 
evolution of interactions between species, especially herbivorous insects and 
their host plants.

The presentation will be held at 6:30 p.m. at Emma S. Clark Memorial Library, 
120 Main Street, Setauket, NY.  Free and open to all.  For additional 
information or to reserve, please email: fourharborshe...@gmail.com.

Patrice Domeischel
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[nysbirds-l] Black-necked Stilt & 2 American Golden-Plovers continue at Nickerson Beach...

[Andrew Baksh]

A few of us who had staked out the known location of the Black-necked Stilt 
were just now rewarded with satisfying views after patiently sitting it out for 
several hours. The bird did not stick around for more than 10 mins after we saw 
it and was last seen heading in the direction of Point Lookout. I will check on 
my way out to see if I could find where else it hangs out.

Many thanks to Fliepe Pimental who spotted the Black-necked Stilt feeding near 
the entrance booth entrance at Nickerson and then conveyed that to Harry Taylor 
and I.

Also, thanks to Robert Proniewych for his intel and Tom Fiore who generously 
took the time to post to the list serves.

The two American Golden-Plovers also continues in the same location as earlier 
reported.

Sharing is caring! Keep the listserves alive y’all!


"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of 
others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick 
Douglass

風　Swift as the wind
林　Quiet as the forest
火　Conquer like the fire
山　Steady as the mountain
Sun Tzu  The Art of War

> (\__/)
> (= '.'=)
> (") _ (") 
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[nysbirds-l] Black-necked Stilt & 2 American Golden-Plovers continue at Nickerson Beach...

[Andrew Baksh]

A few of us who had staked out the known location of the Black-necked Stilt 
were just now rewarded with satisfying views after patiently sitting it out for 
several hours. The bird did not stick around for more than 10 mins after we saw 
it and was last seen heading in the direction of Point Lookout. I will check on 
my way out to see if I could find where else it hangs out.

Many thanks to Fliepe Pimental who spotted the Black-necked Stilt feeding near 
the entrance booth entrance at Nickerson and then conveyed that to Harry Taylor 
and I.

Also, thanks to Robert Proniewych for his intel and Tom Fiore who generously 
took the time to post to the list serves.

The two American Golden-Plovers also continues in the same location as earlier 
reported.

Sharing is caring! Keep the listserves alive y’all!


"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of 
others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick 
Douglass

風　Swift as the wind
林　Quiet as the forest
火　Conquer like the fire
山　Steady as the mountain
Sun Tzu  The Art of War

> (\__/)
> (= '.'=)
> (") _ (") 
> Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! 

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[nysbirds-l] Syracuse RBA

[Joseph Brin]

RBA




*New York
   
   - Syracuse
   - April 22, 2019
   - NYSY 04. 22. 19

Hotline: Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert

Dates: April 15 - April 22,  2019

To report by email: brinjoseph AT yahoo DOT com

Reporting upstate counties: Onondaga, Oswego, Madison, Oneida, Herkimer, 
Cayuga, Montezuma Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands complex

compiled: April 22 AT 2:00 p.m. EDT

compiler: Joseph Brin

Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondgaaudubon.org







Greetings: This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week on April 15, 
2019




Highlights:




RED-THROATED LOON

RED-NECKED GREBE

AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN

LEAST BITTERN

SANDHILL CRANE

EURASIAN WIGEON

NORTHERN GOSHAWK

GOLDEN EAGLE

SORA

AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER

BLACK TERN

SHORT EARED OWL

YELLOW-THROATED VIREO

EVENING GROSBEAK










Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and and Montezuma Wetlands Complex 
(MWC)

   




     4/16: A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON and a SHORT-EARED OWL were seen at 
Carncross Road.

     4/19: 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS were seen at Carncross Road but only 
stayed for a day.

     4/20: A LEAST BITTERN and an EURASIAN WIGEON were seen along the Wildlife 
Drive.







Derby hill Bird Observatory 






     There were two big days this week at Derby. 4/19 had 5,834 Raptors counted 
and 4/21 had an astounding 15,353. Over 90 percent were the first big push of 
BROAD-WINGED HAWKS. Other highlights were 2 GOLDEN EAGLES, 1 NORTHERN 
GOSHAWK,EVENING GROSBEAKS, LEAST BITTERN, SANDHILL CRANE and an AMERICAN WHITE 
PELICAN.







Oswego County






     4/17: A BLACK TERN was seen over Oneida Lake east of Bridgeport.

     4/18: A RED-THROATED LOON and 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS were seen from 
Phillips Point on Oneida Lake.

     4/19: A RED-NECKED GREBE was seen from Phillips Point.







Onondaga County






     4/20: A GOLDEN EAGLE was seen from Cold Brook Road north of Homer.A 
SANDHILL CRANE was seen in Hamlin Marsh in Clay.

     4/21: A COMMON GALLINUTE, an earLy YELLOW-THROATED VIREO and a nesting 
pair of TRUMPETER SWANS were all seen in various locations at three Rivers WMA 
north of Baldwinsville.







Madison County






     EVENING GROSBEAKS continus at a feeder on Carpenter Road near Sheds.

     4/20: A RED-NECKED GREBE was seen on a pond at the Great Swamp Conservancy 
near Canastota.







Herkimer County






     EVENING GROSBEAKS continue at feeders on Military Road north of Dolgeville.

     4/17: A SORA was seen at McKoons Road Marsh north of Richfield Springs.

 

     







  End Transcript












Joseph Brin

Region 5

Baldwinsville, NY, 13027, USA




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[nysbirds-l] Syracuse RBA

[Joseph Brin]

RBA




*New York
   
   - Syracuse
   - April 22, 2019
   - NYSY 04. 22. 19

Hotline: Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert

Dates: April 15 - April 22,  2019

To report by email: brinjoseph AT yahoo DOT com

Reporting upstate counties: Onondaga, Oswego, Madison, Oneida, Herkimer, 
Cayuga, Montezuma Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands complex

compiled: April 22 AT 2:00 p.m. EDT

compiler: Joseph Brin

Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondgaaudubon.org







Greetings: This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week on April 15, 
2019




Highlights:




RED-THROATED LOON

RED-NECKED GREBE

AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN

LEAST BITTERN

SANDHILL CRANE

EURASIAN WIGEON

NORTHERN GOSHAWK

GOLDEN EAGLE

SORA

AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER

BLACK TERN

SHORT EARED OWL

YELLOW-THROATED VIREO

EVENING GROSBEAK










Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and and Montezuma Wetlands Complex 
(MWC)

   




     4/16: A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON and a SHORT-EARED OWL were seen at 
Carncross Road.

     4/19: 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS were seen at Carncross Road but only 
stayed for a day.

     4/20: A LEAST BITTERN and an EURASIAN WIGEON were seen along the Wildlife 
Drive.







Derby hill Bird Observatory 






     There were two big days this week at Derby. 4/19 had 5,834 Raptors counted 
and 4/21 had an astounding 15,353. Over 90 percent were the first big push of 
BROAD-WINGED HAWKS. Other highlights were 2 GOLDEN EAGLES, 1 NORTHERN 
GOSHAWK,EVENING GROSBEAKS, LEAST BITTERN, SANDHILL CRANE and an AMERICAN WHITE 
PELICAN.







Oswego County






     4/17: A BLACK TERN was seen over Oneida Lake east of Bridgeport.

     4/18: A RED-THROATED LOON and 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS were seen from 
Phillips Point on Oneida Lake.

     4/19: A RED-NECKED GREBE was seen from Phillips Point.







Onondaga County






     4/20: A GOLDEN EAGLE was seen from Cold Brook Road north of Homer.A 
SANDHILL CRANE was seen in Hamlin Marsh in Clay.

     4/21: A COMMON GALLINUTE, an earLy YELLOW-THROATED VIREO and a nesting 
pair of TRUMPETER SWANS were all seen in various locations at three Rivers WMA 
north of Baldwinsville.







Madison County






     EVENING GROSBEAKS continus at a feeder on Carpenter Road near Sheds.

     4/20: A RED-NECKED GREBE was seen on a pond at the Great Swamp Conservancy 
near Canastota.







Herkimer County






     EVENING GROSBEAKS continue at feeders on Military Road north of Dolgeville.

     4/17: A SORA was seen at McKoons Road Marsh north of Richfield Springs.

 

     







  End Transcript












Joseph Brin

Region 5

Baldwinsville, NY, 13027, USA




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[nysbirds-l] Reminder! BBC Evening Presentation Tomorrow April 23 7PM

[Dennis Hrehowsik]

*Note: This event meets in Classroom C at the Prospect Park Zoo. Please see
below for details.*


*Tuesday April 23 7PM*
*Tom Gray Presents: The Amazing Birds of South East Asia*

Tom Gray is the Director of Science for the conservation organization
Wildlife Alliance. He recently moved to upper Manhattan, with Fort Tyron
Park slowly becoming his local patch, after 15 years living and working in
South East Asia. This talk will focus on some of the remarkable birds of
South East Asia, particularly Cambodia, and the conservation efforts
focused to conserve them in the face of the region’s rapidly growing
economies and shrinking wildernesses. Tom will describe expeditions looking
for wintering shorebirds, including spoon-billed sandpiper, in the Gulf of
Thailand and to the peaks of the Cardamom Mountains searching for endemic
partridges and laughing thrush. The talk culminates in encounters with the
majestic giant ibis – one of the worlds most threatened and evolutionary
distinct species.

http://brooklynbirdclub.org/event/tom-gray-presents-the-amazing-birds-of-south-east-asia/

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next to the Leffert's house. A zoo security guard will be posted there till
7:15 to allow late comers in. If you arrive late, you may not be able to
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you will continue walking straight, through a large gate, until you are on
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the Discovery Trail (where the pond is). Immediately on your right is the
entrance to the C building.

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We hope to see you there for this exciting program.

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[nysbirds-l] Reminder! BBC Evening Presentation Tomorrow April 23 7PM

[Dennis Hrehowsik]

*Note: This event meets in Classroom C at the Prospect Park Zoo. Please see
below for details.*


*Tuesday April 23 7PM*
*Tom Gray Presents: The Amazing Birds of South East Asia*

Tom Gray is the Director of Science for the conservation organization
Wildlife Alliance. He recently moved to upper Manhattan, with Fort Tyron
Park slowly becoming his local patch, after 15 years living and working in
South East Asia. This talk will focus on some of the remarkable birds of
South East Asia, particularly Cambodia, and the conservation efforts
focused to conserve them in the face of the region’s rapidly growing
economies and shrinking wildernesses. Tom will describe expeditions looking
for wintering shorebirds, including spoon-billed sandpiper, in the Gulf of
Thailand and to the peaks of the Cardamom Mountains searching for endemic
partridges and laughing thrush. The talk culminates in encounters with the
majestic giant ibis – one of the worlds most threatened and evolutionary
distinct species.

http://brooklynbirdclub.org/event/tom-gray-presents-the-amazing-birds-of-south-east-asia/

*An important note about meeting location:* Due to scheduling conflicts at
the library, our April and May meetings will be held at the Prospect Park
Zoo.

Please enter at the service gate.  The service gate is located south of the
zoo's main entrance on Flatbush Avenue, but just north of, and practically
next to the Leffert's house. A zoo security guard will be posted there till
7:15 to allow late comers in. If you arrive late, you may not be able to
get onto zoo grounds. Please be on time for a 7:00pm start.

When the meeting concludes, members will be escorted out together to
Flatbush Avenue. Zoo security is on grounds to keep us safe at all times.

Our meeting will take place in the "C" building classroom. It has
accessible bathrooms down the hallway. After walking into the service gate,
you will continue walking straight, through a large gate, until you are on
the actual zoo path (~ 75 ft), turn right on the path and walk toward a
large octopus sculpture. Turn left under the Octopus, this will put you on
the Discovery Trail (where the pond is). Immediately on your right is the
entrance to the C building.

Parking is available on Flatbush Avenue. Transit directions can be found
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[nysbirds-l] Black-necked Stilt, 2 AMGO @Nickerson Beach, Nassau Co., Monday 4/22

[Thomas Fiore]

Monday, 22 April -

A Black-necked Stilt & 2 American Golden Plovers, with some other shorebirds 
were again reported as of mid-morning at Nickerson beach, southern Nassau 
County, N.Y. 

…
At the northern edge of Manhattan (N.Y. City) 2 Blue Grosbeaks, 1 male & 1 
apparent female were found & reported in the area of the soccer fields at 
Inwood Hill Park; this is not far from West 218 Street, to the west. First 
reported in early a.m. 4/22 by Nathan O’Reilly, a regular visitor to that park.

good luck to all who try for these birds.

Tom Fiore
manhattan
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[nysbirds-l] Black-necked Stilt, 2 AMGO @Nickerson Beach, Nassau Co., Monday 4/22

[Thomas Fiore]

Monday, 22 April -

A Black-necked Stilt & 2 American Golden Plovers, with some other shorebirds 
were again reported as of mid-morning at Nickerson beach, southern Nassau 
County, N.Y. 

…
At the northern edge of Manhattan (N.Y. City) 2 Blue Grosbeaks, 1 male & 1 
apparent female were found & reported in the area of the soccer fields at 
Inwood Hill Park; this is not far from West 218 Street, to the west. First 
reported in early a.m. 4/22 by Nathan O’Reilly, a regular visitor to that park.

good luck to all who try for these birds.

Tom Fiore
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re:[nysbirds-l] Black-necked Stilt, Nassau County NY 4/22! (Monday), & re: Forest Park (Queens Co.) 4/21

[Thomas Fiore]

There is at least 1 very early a.m. Monday 4/22 report of the Black-necked 
Stilt, as well as 2 American Golden-Plovers being seen at Nickerson Beach in 
Nassau County, NY. See: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55254216 
  (I’ve not been, just passing the 
report on here. Hoping those seeking will be able to re-find and report this.)

--
Responding to Bob Lewis’ notes from Queens Co. (NYC) on 4/21 lack of migrants -

Regarding Forest Park & the well-known water-hole there, presumably there is a 
lot (or at least some) water available in other sections of that park lately, 
for birds needing to drink or bathe?  I’ve not been this spring, but it is 
typically at its best when few or almost no other water is available nearby, as 
that brings the birds (when they are in the area, obviously) to that one place 
and not to random puddles, rivuets, & such which may be temporarily formed 
after the heavy rains of recent.  I don’t know just where within Forest Park, 
which is of course a fairly large well-wooded park, the Yellow-throated Warbler 
reported there on 4/19 was. (See: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55122657 
 ) It may be there still, or could 
have moved on. In any event, it seems, from reports, that Queens has not had 
that much of the warbler drop-in as some other places (such as Kings or New 
York counties) in & around N.Y.C. and more particularly, up (or down, in the 
older parlance) the New England Atlantic shore, most of all it seemed in 
easternmost Mass. recently.  But Blue Grosbeaks, for example, are still being 
turned up in adjacent New England states (just this Monday another in 
Connecticut for example.)

It’s been rather striking to see the reports of any number of 
neotropical-wintering species (in particular) that appear to have ‘overshot' 
the local area of NYC to some extent and gone into New England & even (some) on 
to Canada, by now. This may happen with, for example, Yellow Warbler on a 
more-usual basis (with some April arrivals going straight to some breeding 
areas, bypassing areas they do not breed in, or scantily so), but one might 
wonder if more & more of the spring migrants are going as directly as possible 
to breeding areas, when weather allows it.  The weather and related bird 
movements in the east of the past week are seemingly unusual - the find of one 
Black-whiskered Vireo on Martha’s Vineyard was just to underscore the larger 
sample of many migrants that got “sling-shot” up to farther north &/or earlier 
than usual, within the same time-frame / weather events. In any case, hopefully 
Forest Park will be more active soon enough. But if the rains keep coming 
regularly, don’t count on the justly-famous water-hole there to be as 
productive as when the weather has been dry for a while. 

best, and good birding,

Tom Fiore
manhattan

— — 
Date: April 22, 2019
Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC 4/21; Forest Park Queens -
Just for the record, I spent yesterday morning in Forest Park, Queens, from 
about 10:30 to 12:30.  It was dead.  Dead, dead, dead.  I stayed in the 
vicinity of the water hole.  Beyond question the worst birding trip I've ever 
had to Forest Park, and I've been going there in the spring since 1981 (with a 
few missed years). 
I did not see or hear a single warbler.  Nada.  Zilch.   There were also very 
few other birders.  One birder said he saw a Prairie Warbler at the water hole. 
Other than Robin and Grackle, there were no migrants. 
Bob Lewis
Sleepy Hollow NY 









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re:[nysbirds-l] Black-necked Stilt, Nassau County NY 4/22! (Monday), & re: Forest Park (Queens Co.) 4/21

[Thomas Fiore]

There is at least 1 very early a.m. Monday 4/22 report of the Black-necked 
Stilt, as well as 2 American Golden-Plovers being seen at Nickerson Beach in 
Nassau County, NY. See: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55254216 
  (I’ve not been, just passing the 
report on here. Hoping those seeking will be able to re-find and report this.)

--
Responding to Bob Lewis’ notes from Queens Co. (NYC) on 4/21 lack of migrants -

Regarding Forest Park & the well-known water-hole there, presumably there is a 
lot (or at least some) water available in other sections of that park lately, 
for birds needing to drink or bathe?  I’ve not been this spring, but it is 
typically at its best when few or almost no other water is available nearby, as 
that brings the birds (when they are in the area, obviously) to that one place 
and not to random puddles, rivuets, & such which may be temporarily formed 
after the heavy rains of recent.  I don’t know just where within Forest Park, 
which is of course a fairly large well-wooded park, the Yellow-throated Warbler 
reported there on 4/19 was. (See: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55122657 
 ) It may be there still, or could 
have moved on. In any event, it seems, from reports, that Queens has not had 
that much of the warbler drop-in as some other places (such as Kings or New 
York counties) in & around N.Y.C. and more particularly, up (or down, in the 
older parlance) the New England Atlantic shore, most of all it seemed in 
easternmost Mass. recently.  But Blue Grosbeaks, for example, are still being 
turned up in adjacent New England states (just this Monday another in 
Connecticut for example.)

It’s been rather striking to see the reports of any number of 
neotropical-wintering species (in particular) that appear to have ‘overshot' 
the local area of NYC to some extent and gone into New England & even (some) on 
to Canada, by now. This may happen with, for example, Yellow Warbler on a 
more-usual basis (with some April arrivals going straight to some breeding 
areas, bypassing areas they do not breed in, or scantily so), but one might 
wonder if more & more of the spring migrants are going as directly as possible 
to breeding areas, when weather allows it.  The weather and related bird 
movements in the east of the past week are seemingly unusual - the find of one 
Black-whiskered Vireo on Martha’s Vineyard was just to underscore the larger 
sample of many migrants that got “sling-shot” up to farther north &/or earlier 
than usual, within the same time-frame / weather events. In any case, hopefully 
Forest Park will be more active soon enough. But if the rains keep coming 
regularly, don’t count on the justly-famous water-hole there to be as 
productive as when the weather has been dry for a while. 

best, and good birding,

Tom Fiore
manhattan

— — 
Date: April 22, 2019
Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC 4/21; Forest Park Queens -
Just for the record, I spent yesterday morning in Forest Park, Queens, from 
about 10:30 to 12:30.  It was dead.  Dead, dead, dead.  I stayed in the 
vicinity of the water hole.  Beyond question the worst birding trip I've ever 
had to Forest Park, and I've been going there in the spring since 1981 (with a 
few missed years). 
I did not see or hear a single warbler.  Nada.  Zilch.   There were also very 
few other birders.  One birder said he saw a Prairie Warbler at the water hole. 
Other than Robin and Grackle, there were no migrants. 
Bob Lewis
Sleepy Hollow NY 









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Re: [nysbirds-l] Slingshot birds

[Dawn Hannay]

I know that I’m not the only one wondering what a “slingshot event” is. Are you 
referring to migrants overshooting their destination?
Thanks,
Dawn

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 21, 2019, at 9:53 PM, Patricia Lindsay  wrote:
> 
> Shai Mitra and I traveled to RI today for Easter, gnashing teeth, 
> tearing hair, and keening (Shai is, contrary to all expectation, one 
> eighth Irish and prone to keening) about missing a possible/probable 
> slingshot event on our Long Island beaches today, given the favorable 
> weather conditions for just such an event.
> 
> 
> 
> As it turns out, multiple reports of early trans-gulf migrants from 
> coastal Rhode Island today (E. Kingbird, Indigo Bunting, Blue Grosbeak, 
> Scarlet Tanager, Summer Tanager, and Rose-breasted Grosbeak) proved our 
> predictions to be true, and we're wondering if anyone on coastal LI 
> found any evidence of this event, other than my 6 year old great nephew, 
> Orion, who called us from his grandfather's house in Shirley to report a 
> Rose-breasted Grosbeak.
> 
> 
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> 
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Slingshot birds

[Dawn Hannay]

I know that I’m not the only one wondering what a “slingshot event” is. Are you 
referring to migrants overshooting their destination?
Thanks,
Dawn

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 21, 2019, at 9:53 PM, Patricia Lindsay  wrote:
> 
> Shai Mitra and I traveled to RI today for Easter, gnashing teeth, 
> tearing hair, and keening (Shai is, contrary to all expectation, one 
> eighth Irish and prone to keening) about missing a possible/probable 
> slingshot event on our Long Island beaches today, given the favorable 
> weather conditions for just such an event.
> 
> 
> 
> As it turns out, multiple reports of early trans-gulf migrants from 
> coastal Rhode Island today (E. Kingbird, Indigo Bunting, Blue Grosbeak, 
> Scarlet Tanager, Summer Tanager, and Rose-breasted Grosbeak) proved our 
> predictions to be true, and we're wondering if anyone on coastal LI 
> found any evidence of this event, other than my 6 year old great nephew, 
> Orion, who called us from his grandfather's house in Shirley to report a 
> Rose-breasted Grosbeak.
> 
> 
> Patricia Lindsay and Shai  Mitra
> 
> Bay Shore
> 
> 
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Black-necked Stilt at Nickerson

[Andrew Baksh]

Alas, the word is that the Stilt along with the American Golden Plovers are not 
to be seen at the moment. I am not sure why or the cause for the Stilt to be a 
no show at the moment.

Like you, I did not have a chance to see the bird yesterday and would be keen 
on any positive reports.

Cheers,


"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of 
others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick 
Douglass

風　Swift as the wind
林　Quiet as the forest
火　Conquer like the fire
山　Steady as the mountain
Sun Tzu  The Art of War

> (\__/)
> (= '.'=)
> (") _ (") 
> Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! 

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www.birdingdude.blogspot.com

> On Apr 22, 2019, at 9:16 AM, John Mora  wrote:
> 
> Any update on the stilt?  Yesterday was an impossible day for me to take even 
> a short road trip to nearby this beachthank you for any update.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Apr 21, 2019, at 5:18 PM, Steve Walter  wrote:
>> 
>> I posted a picture of the Nickerson Beach (Nassau co.) Black-necked Stilt on 
>> my website at http://stevewalternature.com/ .  It’s one of 483 pictures I 
>> took – all from my car. The main reason for taking so many was the less than 
>> good lighting most of the morning. As I discussed with some people, adults 
>> stilts are not just black and white. In good light – which came through 
>> eventually –,  they look glossy – as this picture kind of shows. The stilt 
>> was faithful to the one pool, repeatedly going from one end to the other. I 
>> advised a few people that had stepped out of their cars that they could be 
>> rewarded with close looks if they waited in their cars. They were indeed 
>> rewarded. So it’s unfortunate to hear of different behavior this afternoon. 
>> I think I’ve heard that before – like with the puddle birds at Heckscher 
>> last year. The afternoon is when the trouble seem to occur, for whatever 
>> reason that is.   
>>  
>> That sort of segues to another topic. Maybe a twofold problem. One is of the 
>> fragmentation of reporting. I went to Nickerson this morning, having heard 
>> on a forum I subscribe to about the American Golden Plovers found yesterday. 
>> But I talked to people today that didn’t know about them, mainly because it 
>> was not posted to this list. That’s a good species for April and deserves 
>> more pub. If you’re a shorebird aficionado like I am, that’s a rare 
>> opportunity to photograph – if you behave around them – Goldens in true 
>> non-breeding plumage (as opposed to fading alternate or juvenile). But then 
>> maybe, if it was posted everywhere, the non-bevahers would have arrived 
>> sooner? So I don’t know. It’s a conversation that’s come up before, and 
>> likely will again. But a Black-necked Stilt surely has to be shared. And 
>> sorry if it got double posted. I never know if my own post is getting 
>> through.
>>  
>> Steve Walter
>> Bayside, NY
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Black-necked Stilt at Nickerson

[Andrew Baksh]

Alas, the word is that the Stilt along with the American Golden Plovers are not 
to be seen at the moment. I am not sure why or the cause for the Stilt to be a 
no show at the moment.

Like you, I did not have a chance to see the bird yesterday and would be keen 
on any positive reports.

Cheers,


"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of 
others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick 
Douglass

風　Swift as the wind
林　Quiet as the forest
火　Conquer like the fire
山　Steady as the mountain
Sun Tzu  The Art of War

> (\__/)
> (= '.'=)
> (") _ (") 
> Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! 

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www.birdingdude.blogspot.com

> On Apr 22, 2019, at 9:16 AM, John Mora  wrote:
> 
> Any update on the stilt?  Yesterday was an impossible day for me to take even 
> a short road trip to nearby this beachthank you for any update.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Apr 21, 2019, at 5:18 PM, Steve Walter  wrote:
>> 
>> I posted a picture of the Nickerson Beach (Nassau co.) Black-necked Stilt on 
>> my website at http://stevewalternature.com/ .  It’s one of 483 pictures I 
>> took – all from my car. The main reason for taking so many was the less than 
>> good lighting most of the morning. As I discussed with some people, adults 
>> stilts are not just black and white. In good light – which came through 
>> eventually –,  they look glossy – as this picture kind of shows. The stilt 
>> was faithful to the one pool, repeatedly going from one end to the other. I 
>> advised a few people that had stepped out of their cars that they could be 
>> rewarded with close looks if they waited in their cars. They were indeed 
>> rewarded. So it’s unfortunate to hear of different behavior this afternoon. 
>> I think I’ve heard that before – like with the puddle birds at Heckscher 
>> last year. The afternoon is when the trouble seem to occur, for whatever 
>> reason that is.   
>>  
>> That sort of segues to another topic. Maybe a twofold problem. One is of the 
>> fragmentation of reporting. I went to Nickerson this morning, having heard 
>> on a forum I subscribe to about the American Golden Plovers found yesterday. 
>> But I talked to people today that didn’t know about them, mainly because it 
>> was not posted to this list. That’s a good species for April and deserves 
>> more pub. If you’re a shorebird aficionado like I am, that’s a rare 
>> opportunity to photograph – if you behave around them – Goldens in true 
>> non-breeding plumage (as opposed to fading alternate or juvenile). But then 
>> maybe, if it was posted everywhere, the non-bevahers would have arrived 
>> sooner? So I don’t know. It’s a conversation that’s come up before, and 
>> likely will again. But a Black-necked Stilt surely has to be shared. And 
>> sorry if it got double posted. I never know if my own post is getting 
>> through.
>>  
>> Steve Walter
>> Bayside, NY
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC 4/21; Forest Park Queens

[Robert Lewis]

 Just for the record, I spent yesterday morning in Forest Park, Queens, from 
about 10:30 to 12:30.  It was dead.  Dead, dead, dead.  I stayed in the 
vicinity of the water hole.  Beyond question the worst birding trip I've ever 
had to Forest Park, and I've been going there in the spring since 1981 (with a 
few missed years).
I did not see or hear a single warbler.  Nada.  Zilch.   There were also very 
few other birders.  One birder said he saw a Prairie Warbler at the water hole.
Other than Robin and Grackle, there were no migrants.
Bob LewisSleepy Hollow NY

On Monday, April 22, 2019, 6:32:46 AM EDT, Thomas Fiore 
 wrote:  
 
 So as not to have this be only in response to the post by Patricia Lindsay, on 
the events of a “slingshot" migrant event, or what I’ll call a 
migrant-overshoot event, or set of events, spanning several recent days, & 
culminating (maybe) in one truly-rare-for-New England species…as noted and 
linked-to below, I am placing some further reports from Manhattan into the 
record here, which may or may not have been widely noted.
The following warbler species were noted on Manhattan island &/or on the 
adjacent isles of New York County (of which Manhattan is the largest parcel) on 
Sunday, 4/21:
Nashville Warbler, Northern Parula, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-rumped [Myrtle] 
Warbler, Pine Warbler, Prairie Warbler, Palm Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, 
American Redstart, Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush, Louisiana Waterthrush, 
Common Yellowthroat, and Hooded Warbler.  Of these, at least 8 species were 
seen in the multiple; also those 8 species were further seen rather widely in 
multiple states & locations to the north of N.Y. City (& some quite a lot 
farther north). The earliest of the preceding in terms of typical or expected 
arrival dates in spring are Nashville and American Redstart, although in recent 
years each of these has turned up at least as early.   Two less-birded parks 
I’ve been checking in northern Manhattan lately include Highbridge Park, and 
St. Nicholas Park; the larger but more divvied-up of these being the former, & 
St. Nicholas Park having less overall obvious habitat for migrants; 
nonetheless, it does receive some! There are any number of smaller parks & 
greenspaces in the northern half of Manhattan island that see migrants drop in, 
of course the more so on strongest passages where there’s a good general 
drop-in of birds. These 2 noted parks can sometimes hold an advantage of 
looking into canopy trees with their steep slopes each of which face east. 
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC 4/21; Forest Park Queens

[Robert Lewis]

 Just for the record, I spent yesterday morning in Forest Park, Queens, from 
about 10:30 to 12:30.  It was dead.  Dead, dead, dead.  I stayed in the 
vicinity of the water hole.  Beyond question the worst birding trip I've ever 
had to Forest Park, and I've been going there in the spring since 1981 (with a 
few missed years).
I did not see or hear a single warbler.  Nada.  Zilch.   There were also very 
few other birders.  One birder said he saw a Prairie Warbler at the water hole.
Other than Robin and Grackle, there were no migrants.
Bob LewisSleepy Hollow NY

On Monday, April 22, 2019, 6:32:46 AM EDT, Thomas Fiore 
 wrote:  
 
 So as not to have this be only in response to the post by Patricia Lindsay, on 
the events of a “slingshot" migrant event, or what I’ll call a 
migrant-overshoot event, or set of events, spanning several recent days, & 
culminating (maybe) in one truly-rare-for-New England species…as noted and 
linked-to below, I am placing some further reports from Manhattan into the 
record here, which may or may not have been widely noted.
The following warbler species were noted on Manhattan island &/or on the 
adjacent isles of New York County (of which Manhattan is the largest parcel) on 
Sunday, 4/21:
Nashville Warbler, Northern Parula, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-rumped [Myrtle] 
Warbler, Pine Warbler, Prairie Warbler, Palm Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, 
American Redstart, Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush, Louisiana Waterthrush, 
Common Yellowthroat, and Hooded Warbler.  Of these, at least 8 species were 
seen in the multiple; also those 8 species were further seen rather widely in 
multiple states & locations to the north of N.Y. City (& some quite a lot 
farther north). The earliest of the preceding in terms of typical or expected 
arrival dates in spring are Nashville and American Redstart, although in recent 
years each of these has turned up at least as early.   Two less-birded parks 
I’ve been checking in northern Manhattan lately include Highbridge Park, and 
St. Nicholas Park; the larger but more divvied-up of these being the former, & 
St. Nicholas Park having less overall obvious habitat for migrants; 
nonetheless, it does receive some! There are any number of smaller parks & 
greenspaces in the northern half of Manhattan island that see migrants drop in, 
of course the more so on strongest passages where there’s a good general 
drop-in of birds. These 2 noted parks can sometimes hold an advantage of 
looking into canopy trees with their steep slopes each of which face east. 
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Black-necked Stilt at Nickerson

[John Mora]

Any update on the stilt?  Yesterday was an impossible day for me to take even a 
short road trip to nearby this beachthank you for any update.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 21, 2019, at 5:18 PM, Steve Walter  wrote:
> 
> I posted a picture of the Nickerson Beach (Nassau co.) Black-necked Stilt on 
> my website at http://stevewalternature.com/ .  It’s one of 483 pictures I 
> took – all from my car. The main reason for taking so many was the less than 
> good lighting most of the morning. As I discussed with some people, adults 
> stilts are not just black and white. In good light – which came through 
> eventually –,  they look glossy – as this picture kind of shows. The stilt 
> was faithful to the one pool, repeatedly going from one end to the other. I 
> advised a few people that had stepped out of their cars that they could be 
> rewarded with close looks if they waited in their cars. They were indeed 
> rewarded. So it’s unfortunate to hear of different behavior this afternoon. I 
> think I’ve heard that before – like with the puddle birds at Heckscher last 
> year. The afternoon is when the trouble seem to occur, for whatever reason 
> that is.   
>  
> That sort of segues to another topic. Maybe a twofold problem. One is of the 
> fragmentation of reporting. I went to Nickerson this morning, having heard on 
> a forum I subscribe to about the American Golden Plovers found yesterday. But 
> I talked to people today that didn’t know about them, mainly because it was 
> not posted to this list. That’s a good species for April and deserves more 
> pub. If you’re a shorebird aficionado like I am, that’s a rare opportunity to 
> photograph – if you behave around them – Goldens in true non-breeding plumage 
> (as opposed to fading alternate or juvenile). But then maybe, if it was 
> posted everywhere, the non-bevahers would have arrived sooner? So I don’t 
> know. It’s a conversation that’s come up before, and likely will again. But a 
> Black-necked Stilt surely has to be shared. And sorry if it got double 
> posted. I never know if my own post is getting through.
>  
> Steve Walter
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Black-necked Stilt at Nickerson

[John Mora]

Any update on the stilt?  Yesterday was an impossible day for me to take even a 
short road trip to nearby this beachthank you for any update.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 21, 2019, at 5:18 PM, Steve Walter  wrote:
> 
> I posted a picture of the Nickerson Beach (Nassau co.) Black-necked Stilt on 
> my website at http://stevewalternature.com/ .  It’s one of 483 pictures I 
> took – all from my car. The main reason for taking so many was the less than 
> good lighting most of the morning. As I discussed with some people, adults 
> stilts are not just black and white. In good light – which came through 
> eventually –,  they look glossy – as this picture kind of shows. The stilt 
> was faithful to the one pool, repeatedly going from one end to the other. I 
> advised a few people that had stepped out of their cars that they could be 
> rewarded with close looks if they waited in their cars. They were indeed 
> rewarded. So it’s unfortunate to hear of different behavior this afternoon. I 
> think I’ve heard that before – like with the puddle birds at Heckscher last 
> year. The afternoon is when the trouble seem to occur, for whatever reason 
> that is.   
>  
> That sort of segues to another topic. Maybe a twofold problem. One is of the 
> fragmentation of reporting. I went to Nickerson this morning, having heard on 
> a forum I subscribe to about the American Golden Plovers found yesterday. But 
> I talked to people today that didn’t know about them, mainly because it was 
> not posted to this list. That’s a good species for April and deserves more 
> pub. If you’re a shorebird aficionado like I am, that’s a rare opportunity to 
> photograph – if you behave around them – Goldens in true non-breeding plumage 
> (as opposed to fading alternate or juvenile). But then maybe, if it was 
> posted everywhere, the non-bevahers would have arrived sooner? So I don’t 
> know. It’s a conversation that’s come up before, and likely will again. But a 
> Black-necked Stilt surely has to be shared. And sorry if it got double 
> posted. I never know if my own post is getting through.
>  
> Steve Walter
> Bayside, NY
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[nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC 4/21- add'l. notes (& out-of-state rare & early birds)

[Thomas Fiore]

So as not to have this be only in response to the post by Patricia Lindsay, on 
the events of a “slingshot" migrant event, or what I’ll call a 
migrant-overshoot event, or set of events, spanning several recent days, & 
culminating (maybe) in one truly-rare-for-New England species…as noted and 
linked-to below, I am placing some further reports from Manhattan into the 
record here, which may or may not have been widely noted.

The following warbler species were noted on Manhattan island &/or on the 
adjacent isles of New York County (of which Manhattan is the largest parcel) on 
Sunday, 4/21:

Nashville Warbler, Northern Parula, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-rumped [Myrtle] 
Warbler, Pine Warbler, Prairie Warbler, Palm Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, 
American Redstart, Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush, Louisiana Waterthrush, 
Common Yellowthroat, and Hooded Warbler.  Of these, at least 8 species were 
seen in the multiple; also those 8 species were further seen rather widely in 
multiple states & locations to the north of N.Y. City (& some quite a lot 
farther north). The earliest of the preceding in terms of typical or expected 
arrival dates in spring are Nashville and American Redstart, although in recent 
years each of these has turned up at least as early.   Two less-birded parks 
I’ve been checking in northern Manhattan lately include Highbridge Park, and 
St. Nicholas Park; the larger but more divvied-up of these being the former, & 
St. Nicholas Park having less overall obvious habitat for migrants; 
nonetheless, it does receive some! There are any number of smaller parks & 
greenspaces in the northern half of Manhattan island that see migrants drop in, 
of course the more so on strongest passages where there’s a good general 
drop-in of birds. These 2 noted parks can sometimes hold an advantage of 
looking into canopy trees with their steep slopes each of which face east. 
Other parks in parts of Manhattan have this potential.

It seems no one turned up a Yellow-throated Warbler again in Central Park (or 
elsewhere in Manhattan) on Sunday 4/21, but the species may well show itself 
again, and also could be lingering but in a new part of the same park.

A rather early Veery was confirmed thru eBird in Central Park for Tues., 4/16, 
that sighting by long-time birder Ricki Ravitts. This seems to be among the 
species that’s come at least in small numbers much farther north earlier than 
would be anticipated; some others of this species have been reported north of 
N.Y. City, not all necessarily confirmed to species. Wood Thrushes have 
appeared in a number of locations as of at least 4/21, including a small number 
in Manhattan, where they are scarce & rather threatened nesters in select sites.

--
A Black-whiskered Vireo was found & photographed at Martha’s Vineyard off 
Massachusetts on Sunday 4/21, see: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55238360 
  If accepted by their state 
records committee, this will be a first state record for Mass., discovered & 
photographed by Ken Magnuson.  This is a species (with 2 forms) most regular in 
the Caribbean Greater Antilles, and (1 form) is a Florida & Bahamas islands 
breeder as well. [N.B., a first record north of southern Virginia (and 6th 
north of Florida and the gulf coast) was established for this vireo species at 
Rhode Island’s Sakonnet Point, by Evan Lipton, precisely 11 months before this 
latest sighting on Martha’s Vineyard: the Rhode Island record is for May 21, 
2018)].  This ultra-rarity for so far north may just underscore the recent 
movements of so many other migrants of both typical & less-typical species to 
“overshoot” and end up farther north than expected, &/or on dates ahead of when 
expected.  

Scarlet Tanagers were reported (& confirmed in eBird reports) from at least 
several New England locations, from 4/19-21.  The checklists of birds seen at 
just a few locations in Massachusetts, as of 4/21, are remarkable, in part for 
how many were well-documented & seen by multiple observers; they include at 
least a total of 17 species of N. American-breeding warblers, including 
Prothonotary, Hooded, Worm-eating, Magnolia, and most-remarkably for the date 
Bay-breasted Warbler[s], plus another dozen species of warbler some of which 
would be expected by the date, but many from 7 to 14+ days earlier than 
more-typically (first-seen) in Massachusetts. That state also has reports of E. 
Kingbirds, more Blue Grosbeaks, Indigo Buntings, Summer and Scarlet Tanager[s], 

Summer Tanagers turned up northward & downeast in New England at least to 
mid-coastal Maine on Sunday, 4/21. As did Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, and Indigo 
Buntings. At least one Blue Grosbeak was photographed Sun. 4/21 in Windsor 
County, Vermont - see: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55205034 
  

>From April 17-20th, New Brunswick in the Canadian Maritimes saw Rose-breasted 
>& Blue Grosbeak as 

[nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC 4/21- add'l. notes (& out-of-state rare & early birds)

[Thomas Fiore]

So as not to have this be only in response to the post by Patricia Lindsay, on 
the events of a “slingshot" migrant event, or what I’ll call a 
migrant-overshoot event, or set of events, spanning several recent days, & 
culminating (maybe) in one truly-rare-for-New England species…as noted and 
linked-to below, I am placing some further reports from Manhattan into the 
record here, which may or may not have been widely noted.

The following warbler species were noted on Manhattan island &/or on the 
adjacent isles of New York County (of which Manhattan is the largest parcel) on 
Sunday, 4/21:

Nashville Warbler, Northern Parula, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-rumped [Myrtle] 
Warbler, Pine Warbler, Prairie Warbler, Palm Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, 
American Redstart, Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush, Louisiana Waterthrush, 
Common Yellowthroat, and Hooded Warbler.  Of these, at least 8 species were 
seen in the multiple; also those 8 species were further seen rather widely in 
multiple states & locations to the north of N.Y. City (& some quite a lot 
farther north). The earliest of the preceding in terms of typical or expected 
arrival dates in spring are Nashville and American Redstart, although in recent 
years each of these has turned up at least as early.   Two less-birded parks 
I’ve been checking in northern Manhattan lately include Highbridge Park, and 
St. Nicholas Park; the larger but more divvied-up of these being the former, & 
St. Nicholas Park having less overall obvious habitat for migrants; 
nonetheless, it does receive some! There are any number of smaller parks & 
greenspaces in the northern half of Manhattan island that see migrants drop in, 
of course the more so on strongest passages where there’s a good general 
drop-in of birds. These 2 noted parks can sometimes hold an advantage of 
looking into canopy trees with their steep slopes each of which face east. 
Other parks in parts of Manhattan have this potential.

It seems no one turned up a Yellow-throated Warbler again in Central Park (or 
elsewhere in Manhattan) on Sunday 4/21, but the species may well show itself 
again, and also could be lingering but in a new part of the same park.

A rather early Veery was confirmed thru eBird in Central Park for Tues., 4/16, 
that sighting by long-time birder Ricki Ravitts. This seems to be among the 
species that’s come at least in small numbers much farther north earlier than 
would be anticipated; some others of this species have been reported north of 
N.Y. City, not all necessarily confirmed to species. Wood Thrushes have 
appeared in a number of locations as of at least 4/21, including a small number 
in Manhattan, where they are scarce & rather threatened nesters in select sites.

--
A Black-whiskered Vireo was found & photographed at Martha’s Vineyard off 
Massachusetts on Sunday 4/21, see: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55238360 
  If accepted by their state 
records committee, this will be a first state record for Mass., discovered & 
photographed by Ken Magnuson.  This is a species (with 2 forms) most regular in 
the Caribbean Greater Antilles, and (1 form) is a Florida & Bahamas islands 
breeder as well. [N.B., a first record north of southern Virginia (and 6th 
north of Florida and the gulf coast) was established for this vireo species at 
Rhode Island’s Sakonnet Point, by Evan Lipton, precisely 11 months before this 
latest sighting on Martha’s Vineyard: the Rhode Island record is for May 21, 
2018)].  This ultra-rarity for so far north may just underscore the recent 
movements of so many other migrants of both typical & less-typical species to 
“overshoot” and end up farther north than expected, &/or on dates ahead of when 
expected.  

Scarlet Tanagers were reported (& confirmed in eBird reports) from at least 
several New England locations, from 4/19-21.  The checklists of birds seen at 
just a few locations in Massachusetts, as of 4/21, are remarkable, in part for 
how many were well-documented & seen by multiple observers; they include at 
least a total of 17 species of N. American-breeding warblers, including 
Prothonotary, Hooded, Worm-eating, Magnolia, and most-remarkably for the date 
Bay-breasted Warbler[s], plus another dozen species of warbler some of which 
would be expected by the date, but many from 7 to 14+ days earlier than 
more-typically (first-seen) in Massachusetts. That state also has reports of E. 
Kingbirds, more Blue Grosbeaks, Indigo Buntings, Summer and Scarlet Tanager[s], 

Summer Tanagers turned up northward & downeast in New England at least to 
mid-coastal Maine on Sunday, 4/21. As did Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, and Indigo 
Buntings. At least one Blue Grosbeak was photographed Sun. 4/21 in Windsor 
County, Vermont - see: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55205034 
  

>From April 17-20th, New Brunswick in the Canadian Maritimes saw Rose-breasted 
>& Blue Grosbeak as