Central Park, Manhattan N.Y. City Migration notes, some warblers continued to be seen in Central Park, Manhattan Friday, 30 July 2010, including American Redstart[s] (at the edge of the Ramble, fide Jack Meyer) and at the Loch, and Northern Waterthrush at the small stream near W. 77 Street (observed with another birder) & also at the Loch, and a "first-of-fall" (to me, in Central) Blue-winged Warbler at the wildflower meadow, as well as a number of Yellow Warblers seen in up to 5 separate locations in Central, from the Pond near the park's south end thru the Ramble area & to the north end at the Pool & Meer. The other migrants & summer breeders & visitors include a slightly increased number of Chimney Swifts in the north (compared with a week ago) & a Ruby-throated Hummingbird in the Conservatory Garden by East 104 Street in Central, & also a few Spotted Sandpipers flitting around at the CP reservoir.
Saturday, 31 July, a look around the north end provided an early Tennessee Warbler, seen well at about 6:15 a.m. from the Great Hill, & other warblers encountered in the park before noon included: Yellow (a few esp. in the Ramble & Lake areas), Black-and-white (at the Loch, and at the woods just north of Tanner's Spring (s. edge of Summit Rock), American Redstart (6+ including 3 seen simultaneously at the Great Hill), and Northern Waterthrush (4, including 2 seen together at the SW cove of the Lake, & also at the Loch, and by the outlet of a stream at Balcony Bridge - Lake side). Incidentally, the Tennessee Warbler I observed closely appeared to be an adult with worn flight feathers. While on the early side & my own earliest sighting of this species in fall migration in NY, it falls well within known date ranges of the species fall migration, in general. A birding couple I met in the Ramble late Saturday morning asked where they might pick up a copy of the Checklist of Birds of Central Park - this seems not to be available in hard copy anymore from the visitor centers in the park, but it is available as a PDF file, on-line: http://www.joinnewyork.us/uploads/birds%20of%20cpark%20doc%20oficial.pdf (The Checklist was prepared & edited by Rebekah Creshkoff and Marie Winn, with some assistance from a number of the regular birders of the park over many years.) - - - For those who may not follow the Brooklyn bird reports, Alex Wilson reports a Blue-winged and Yellow Warbler[s] along with Northern Waterthrush from Prospect Park, with further additions to the Yellow warblers there, and nice sightings of Forster;s Terns at Prospect Lake, these via Peter Dorosh's "Prospect Park & Regional Bird Sightings" blog updated regularly, especially for Prospect & various rarities, in addition to the migrations. Prior sightings from A.W. were on Wednesday, 7/28. And on Monday, 7/26, a duo of waterthrush species (Louisiana as well as Northern) were found in Prospect as reported by Rob Bate. Lots of Yellow Warblers seen at Prospect Park as well. The migrants are moving, and not all are shorebirds... nor even straying ducks :-) Good birding, Tom Fiore, Manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
