Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City Saturday & Sunday, May 8th & 9th:
Several Summer Tanagers were found in Central Park with at least 2 adult males, and one in female plumage, and at least one of the males (likely same individual as seen & photographed by many observers on Sat.) still present Sunday in the same area of the park. Multiple Evening Grosbeaks were again present in the park, with a minimum of six altogether, perhaps more, generally seen in twos or singly. The Yellow-breasted Chat (first found & reported by R. Zucker with 3 birding colleagues working on a ‘big day’ for World Migratory Bird Day) was seen by many dozens of patient observers in the north end of the park later on Saturday, 5/8. A notably late Red Fox Sparrow was found (photographed by K. Fung & others) in the park’s n. end on Saturday, and it may be added that stragglers of this species have been documented elsewhere in the greater region in the past week. Some birders (including the finders of this Fox Sparrow) were participating in the World Series of Birding event, held this & last year in areas beyond solely New Jersey. More than 100 species of birds were found in Central Park alone for Saturday, May 8 (nearly one quarter of those species being warblers), and well over 130 species for all of N.Y. County on that day. Many more sightings, to be noted at another time. good wide-ranging May birding, 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/ --
