Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - Just a brief note, a Summer Tanager in possibly/probably-female (or 1st-year male plumage; essentially yellow) has been lingering from at least Monday, 10/19 through Friday, 10/23 - and could well be continuing at the northeast quadrant of Central; the most-recent (photo-documented) sighting being by the small ‘butterfly plantings’ astride a small knoll just north of the n.-e. end of the North Meadow ballfields, that being immediately west of the park’s E. Drive roadway. However, earlier sightings of what was almost certainly the same individual had been across that park road on the east side, near & at the plant nursery area & compost, all of these locations at roughly E. 104-105th St. ‘latitudes’. (We’ve also had a few Scarlet Tanagers pass thru in the past week as well…)
All of N.Y. County is seeing good diversity continue in many groups of birds, with still a rather high number of neotropical-wintering American warblers, scattered through all of Manhattan (in parks large & small & in a lot of smaller greenspaces or even ‘patches’ of habitat) - & while NO Painted warblers or other rarities have turned up, the warbler diversity was still up to 17 or more species as of Saturday, 10/24, with a fair number of the species found in Central Park, but many birds also being seen elsewhere. Obviously this includes some species now deemed ‘late’, even though virtually all of the species still being seen have late-record dates far later, within N.Y. City & even in N.Y. County, some including (past) dates into the Christmas Bird Count season. The only warblers that might be termed ‘common’ now are the expected three, Yellow-rumped [Myrtle form], Palm (of both forms), and, to a slightly lesser extent now, Common Yellowthroat (the latter of which may & does sometimes linger in odd spots all through the metro. area). good big-migrations, 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/ --
