Friday, Sept. 10th - Manhattan (for now) in N.Y. City - A CONNECTICUT Warbler has been found in Central Park; details of that a bit later. Not surprising for the date & with a goodly no. being also reliably reported around the region in recent days.
A very preliminary tally of other warbler species for N.Y. County on Friday, Sept. 10th was up to 26 - species - by mid-day, with *slightly* less-expected (now) including Blue-winged, Worm-eating, & Mourning Warblers; other species (that are expected) in good no’s. included: Bay-breasted, Tennessee, Cape May, Prairie, Black-throated Green (uh - check all of those closely!), and some multiple of: Blackburnian, Nashville, Pine, Blackpoll, Wilson’s, & Canada. Plus all the rest, with a definite re-invigoration of Chestnut-sided Warbler… still looking to add to that warbler tally. A Cerulean Warbler was reliably reported on the southern-most park of NYC and NY state (Dr. R. Veit), for 9/10, that’s Conference House Park on Staten Island / Richmond Co. Also freshly-arrived in some numbers were more E. Wood-Pewees (& a few Olive-sided Flycatchers, for good measure), as well as more Empidonax [genus], & still at least a few E. Kingbirds on the move, plus Great Crested Flycatcher, and E. Phoebe. Both Cuckoo species have been found on Manhattan, & a good many Chimney Swifts were on the move as well. No surprise on strong n/nw wind, the fresh cold-front bringing raptors, esp. the larger spp. - Bald Eagles, Ospreys as well as some others thru - and, in overnight & earliest-a.m. flight, Swainson’s Thrush above all, in numbers pushing south but also a good many dropping in, some to small parks & green-spaces. Of course many many other species on the day; a more complete tally will be coming. Of interest as well are a few Purple Finches, not quite the 1st-of-fall here. Indeed, while a few larger parks might have a lot of birders, some smaller parks this day -in lower Manhattan in particular- were hot-spots. One such was Corlears Hook, and the adjacent East River park spaces. Also quite active by the Battery, and we'll anticipate some good sightings from Governors Island for the day. The southern third or so of Central Park was demonstrably as busy if not more so for migrants than elsewhere in that park, early in the day. . . . . Also good numbers of Monarchs pushing south, with at least 16 other butterfly spp. on the day so far in Manhattan alone - more to come... 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/ --
