Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City Friday, 27 August 2010 (6:50 - 9:20 a.m.)
I spent over an hour at the Great Hill, specifically the area where on Thursday 8/26 I found a Grasshopper Sparrow, as well as Lincoln's Sparrow. Early this Friday morning I was unable to re-find the Grasshopper but did see Lincoln's again, in the same area, as well as a Chipping Sparrow. The area in general had fairly good migrant activity with at least a dozen warbler spp. & 4 Vireo species: my first Blue-headed of the fall in Central, plus Yellow-throated & Warbling & (multiple) Red-eyed Vireos. A Scarlet Tanager was also there today and a modest number of Veery in the woods. There was also a single Ruby-crowned Kinglet, my first of fall in NYC. Flycatchers included Great Crested, multiple Empidonax, E. Wood-Pewees, & E. Kingbirds. At the Ramble, the maintenance field area was quite good in just a short look around 8:15 - 8:30 am, with a dozen warbler spp. including a few different species from those seen earlier, & as I passed thru the Ramble a keen birder & Central Park regular mentioned a burst of early migrants in Strawberry Fields which flock then dispersed to "parts unknown", something which may have been seen there on Thursday as well. A list of the eighteen warbler species I encountered this morning (not all in one area & taking in the Ramble as well as the north end of the park) is below. Again, these & other migrants were in rather discrete smallish flocks (and not distributed all through some places which can be productive); this has been usual so far this fall & may be the usual for a long time to come... unless we see a big 'fall-out', perhaps weather-related. Blue-winged Warbler (1) Tennessee Warbler (1) Nashville Warbler (2) Northern Parula (2) Yellow Warbler (1) Chestnut-sided Warbler (5+) Magnolia Warbler (18+) Black-throated Blue Warbler (3) Black-throated Green Warbler (2) Blackburnian Warbler (2) Prairie Warbler (1) Black-and-white Warbler (8+) American Redstart (25+) Ovenbird (4) Northern Waterthrush (5+) Common Yellowthroat (7+) Wilson's Warbler (1) Canada Warbler (5+) I might add that I cam across no other birders in the north end early this morning, and not many at all in the Ramble & vicinity a bit later... but migrant birds are out there now in any case. Good luck, 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/ --
