Monday, 29 April, 2019 - Just to add it into the day’s record here on this list-serve, the ongoing state-rarity BLACK-NECKED STILT was seen Monday 4/29 at Nickerson beach, southern Nassau County, NY (a.k.a. Lido Beach Passive Nature Reserve).
-- A male Summer Tanager in near-pristine alternate-plumage (adult coloration) was showing very well for multiple observers in Manhattan, at the Clinton Community Garden (named for that neighborhood) at 434 West 48th Street, which is between Ninth & Tenth Avenues on manhattan’s west side. The garden may be locked, but the tanager was most often fairly easy to view as it went after bees & perhaps other insects within the garden. (If let into the garden, all must obey any rules or instructions, and please be respectful of any & all other visitors there.) The ‘parade’ of Blue Grosbeaks in the larger region continued, with a female continuing over the weekend, Sat.-Sun. 4/27-28, at Manhattan’s Fort Tryon Park, which is in the northern portion of the island, perhaps best known to non-birders for the Cloisters museum, an ‘annex’ of the Metropolitan Museum of Art within Ft. Tryon Park - this grosbeak was seen in the field near the Cloisters. On Saturday, 4/27 several observers reported a Prothonotary Warbler in Manhattan, at R.F. Wagner, Jr. park, the south end of Battery Park City Park. -- In Richmond County, NY (a.k.a. Staten Island, N.Y. City) a male Golden-winged Warbler was found Monday, 4/29 at Clove Lakes Park, which is in the northern quadrant of the island; I believe the finder[s] of this there were Catherine Barron & Maya Shikhman, and thanks to the latter for timely report, via the SINaturalist group. There’ve been plenty of other migrants recently; a further report to come, with some additional notes. —— Many migrants have been reaching nearby (& some farther) breeding areas to N.Y. City, as well as passing through over the weekend. These include species such as Cerulean, Kentucky, and many other warbler spp. & a wide variety of other arriving or ongoing migrant birds - PLEASE realize the long & arduous voyages these birds have been on, to reach where they nest, or are still undertaking to reach their breeding areas, & exercise the maximum of restraint in any potential nesting area as they arrive and set up for the season, and on thru the remainder of their breeding season. The birds & all who care for them will thank you for this. good birding to all, Tom Fiore manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
