New York County (in N.Y. City) including Manhattan & Randall’s Island - Thursday, Oct. 28th:
A Yellow-breasted Chat has by now entertained several hundred visitors as it continued for Thursday in a smaller greenspace just west of Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan. A Yellow-crowned Night-Heron was seen at Central Park by the Lake, perhaps a lingering (young) bird. More Purple Finch have started to arrive; this going along with a great many sparrow arrivals, with [Red] Fox Sparrows among them, and again a number of Vesper Sparrow sightings, the latter from Randall’s Island (2 there; M.B. Kooper), also from Inwood Hill Park, & one at the Pinetum area in Central Park, all Thursday. Nelson’s Sparrow was also again found on Randall’s Island. Red-breasted Nuthatch also has increased again, at least a bit, and should be watched for potentially larger movements. Hooded Mergansers arrived at Central Park. Plenty of migration has been occurring in recent days and on through Friday, so more to report on fairly soon. 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/ --
