Wed., 7 May, 2014 - Madison Square Park (list) & "good day to be out".
Advise any & all who can get out after work or school, birds are active & many continue singing at the later hours of the day... Central Park has a lot of its same "specials" & many many typical migrants; Riverside Park - uptown areas, had rather high number of Indigo Buntings, many singing, & at least modest other migrant activity... (I did not even get to 'the drip') ........ birds seen in one hour (8-9 a.m.) at Madison Square Park in Manhattan: Wood Thrush (also heard sing just a little as I arrived) Hermit Thrush American Robin (multiple) Ruby-crowned Kinglet (multiple) Gray Catbird Ovenbird (also singing) Blackburnian Warbler (female) Palm Warbler (male, very active on lawn) Yellow-rumped [Myrtle] Warbler (several) Black-and-white Warbler (female & male; also singing) Common Yellowthroat (female & male; also singing) American Redstart (female & male; also singing) Northern Parula (female & male; also singing) Yellow Warbler (female & male; also singing) Black-throated Blue Warbler (female & male; also singing) Black-throated Green Warbler (female & male; also singing) Scarlet Tanager (male) Eastern Towhee (male; also singing) White-throated Sparrow (many; also singing) Swamp Sparrow NOT seen (by me or 5+ other a.m. birders): prothonotary (yet, it could still be there ranging around) good birds! 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/[email protected]/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/ --
