4/9 update: The adult LITTLE Gull was reported again from the southern end waters off Staten Island, N.Y. City (and the southernmost area of NY state, as well) - as seen amongst many Bonaparte’s Gulls & the Little perhaps moving off towards adjacent Perth Amboy, New Jersey. All close to & from Conference House Park, Staten Island (Richmond County, NY). This is highly likely the same individual Little Gull first found by Dr. Veit the day before and also seen by others. (There are other reports of Little Gull from other parts of NY state, also, into 4/9.)
In northern Queens County, a Prothonotary Warbler is happening again for Saturday, as noted in eBird - perhaps a question will be… how many (for just that county). . . . . And while the fine birders making the discoveries on Randall’s Island (N.Y. County) may be wanting to have their own reporting on here, it’s always worth a note that one of (or, the) first BLUE GROSBEAKs of the spring was seen on that island on the morning of 4/9, a young male (by description & photos). See the prize-winner photo on the Macaulay Library archive: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/433483461 <https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/433483461> That ’sixth warbler species’ of Sat. morning for N.Y. County: the lingering, over-wintered Orange-crowned also on Randall’s Island - and the 4 Wilson’s Snipe were a very nice addition to many other sightings there. Lots of other good migration happenings, including on 2 of the major outlying isles of N.Y. County (Randall’s, as well as Governors). On Governors Island, I photo’d a Glaucous Gull (very early a.m., 4/9), both perched & then in-flight, just before it & other gulls moved up & away; this *might* well be a bird that had been seen on the Brooklyn-side of the waters there & not so long-ago. Good loon-movements out across N.Y. harbor, as well as for some other species. Not noted by most of us all that much, it’s interesting to see even a couple of Black-capped Chickadees moving in early a.m. (diurnal) north-bound flight - also a 'favorite-for-ever' species. . . . . Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - Saturday, April 9th - A YELLOW-THROATED Warbler has continued on (again, thanks to Paul Sweet/A.M.N.H. for the initial find of this bird thru careful, close listening & observing) - still around the northeast quadrant of the Ramble area in Central. Other warblers found more-widely all around have again included Palm, Pine, & [Myrtle] Yellow-rumped, as well as Louisiana Watertrush. A few newly arrived Blue-gray Gnatcatchers are just a small part of the fresh arrival of birds into the county (and many, on-beyond in migration) for Saturday. A very evident increase of Hermit Thrush in some locations, also a clear further swelling of certain sparrow spp. including Swamp, Savannah, Chipping, and others, as well as some addituonal E. Towhee arrival. Further increases have been seen for Belted Kingfisher, for Barn Swallow, and *at least* 15 or more additional other migrant species. As is expected, a signal mover of the mornings, Y.-s. Flickers were on their early passages, although far more will surely be seen in coming higher-volume morning-flights. Just at Central Park again there were more than 65 species seen, even by noon-hour of Sat., 4/9, by the many many active observers covering many sectors of that park from sunrise hour. Red-breasted Merganser pair continued on the C.P. reservoir, and also continuing in the park are Hooded Mergansers and Wood Ducks. Three Swallow species have been seen, again: Tree, N. Rough-winged, & Barn on various waterbody-watches. And there are such new to the spring species as Spotted Sandpiper, and Green Heron, with some other new arrivals at least possible. Broad-winged Hawks are beginning to arrive... More than 75 birders had viewed the Central Park Yellow-throated Warbler for Saturday by noon-hour. It’s been doing the old sapsucker-well ’thieving’ for sap (& for some minute insects) as one of the many warblers & other passerine birds that will do this at times. Sapsuckers can be hard-working! (It looks like Nassau County, NY has added the species to the spring-arrival list, too, at least by Saturday.) Thanks to all of the many quietly-observing, ethically-minded observers out and about - and also reporting many sightings, 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/ --
