(last Sunday), 12/23/2012 - The Bronx, N.Y. City Not a bird most anyone would try and look for, as it's such a common spring & fall migrant and a fairly common breeder in appropriate habitat in the state and many northern states and provinces, but as a CBC bird, quite unexpected - a Magnolia Warbler was seen & photographed in the western side of the Bronx, at Wave Hill botanical garden, last Sunday during, and as a part of the Bronx-Westchester Christmas bird count. There may be a few, perhaps very few, other NY state CBC records for that species, and seem to be very few regional records from so late in the year. Hopefully the bird had sense enough to get south these past days! In Wave Hill's grounds, the bird was found below / west of the "ecology center" building, and was loosely associating with White-throated Sparrows, feeding very near the ground with some sort of insect life as its prey.
Good birding, Tom Fiore, Manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
