Manhattan, N.Y. City, Thursday, April 8th - Needs to be noted, the female W. Tanager was still in Carl Schurz Park, & also there, the ongoing (also overwintered) Orange-crowned Warbler, on 4/8.
Always a very unexpected sight in Manhattan (although not ‘mega’ rare there), a Pileated Woodpecker was found at Inwood Hill Park near the island’s northern end, seen by a number of observers, with obviously great views, as their photos indicate. The northern part of Manhattan is certainly the spot to anticipate the chances of this species, & early spring a fairly good time to have one come in for a visit; it will be interesting to see whether it decides to stick around at all. Another (2nd, different) Orange-crowned Warbler showed up, this latest in Central Park Thursday, by the Pool; one might wonder how far it came, whether it may have wintered not so distantly from Manhattan. A still-early N. Parula was ongoing in the Ramble in Central, with many observers. And an E. Meadowlark was still in the north end of Central Park, lingering a bit longer than that species usually will for that park. At least some fresh migration had taken place overnight Wed.-to-Thursday with a modest uptick of Pine Warblers, along with modest shifts of some other migrants. There are signs that some of the many B.-c. Chickadees & Tufted Titmice of the past winter may be getting on their way, but it remains to be seen how many of either species linger on a while. .. A nice variety of native plants have begun to flower, along with the many ornamental varieties of trees, shrubs & smaller plants, in Manhattan’s various parks. One of the trees starting to show blooms (and which does so ahead of their leaf-out) is Eastern Redbud, found in a number of locations around N.Y. county. 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/ --
