New York County (in N.Y. City), including Manhattan, Randall’s Island, & Governors Island - Monday, May 9th:
A duo of birders (N. Dawson, A. Ferino) re-found the lingering Seaside Sparrow again on Governors Island (Hammock Grove section, as previously) with a bit of patient watching there later on Monday p.m. - see one of the photos now in the Macaulay Library archive: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/446417261 <https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/446417261> Also present on Governors were a total of at least 7 more sparrow spp. and at least a half-dozen warbler spp. (incl. Palm Warbler), even in those hours later in the day, as well as some other migrants and a selection of breed-there or regular-visitant species. An attempt to *re-find* (even to hear the bird sing again) a Cerulean Warbler, quite late in the sunny milder afternoon, on Monday at Riverside Park (in Manhattan) around the northern-sector woods (taller trees & more ground-cover, entered via maintained wood-chip trail) “Sanctuary” was unfruitful, even if some other warbler and other migrant species were seen & heard later in the day. The trend of some birds found in that part of that park (& more broadly) can be to move on north, esp. where the greenspace does allow some contiguous movement with more of the same woods, trees, etc.; & some of the steeper slopes in that area (up to the west of Grants’ Tomb monument) can be tough to bird, other than by ear. Riverside Park as a whole has great potential and yet is not birded even to 5% of the degree to which birders flock in to Central, although Riverside still has some devotees. The eBird record for that park is not (yet) reflective of all that is seen & which occurs there, esp. in peak migration periods (one of which has just occurred - many species are also ‘missing’ from that listing-app which have occurred there over just the past decade; some of those seen and recorded for Riverside by the late, great Geoff Nulle who was the most-devoted to that park of any recently active obsevers.) The Yellow-breasted Chat and adult Red-headed Woodpecker each remained in respective areas of the north end of Central Park (in Manhattan) all day Monday, with hundreds of eventual observers of each in the two distinct areas they were lingering in. A Kentucky Warbler from Sunday (which was also eventually seen by 100+ observers for that day) was NOT re-found (or if so, not publicly reported by anyone) on Monday but, as with some other rarer species not re-found for Monday (such as a Yellow-throated Warbler also in Central thru Sunday) these birds could potentially still be lingering, and turn up yet again in their respective areas. Some groups of birders were able to find more than 20 spp. of warbler on Sunday just in Central Park, with at least a few individual birders also reaching that tally for a lot of effort on the day. Not quite a ‘rarity’ in early/mid-May, at least one Rusty Blackbird (in expected breeding color, lacking ‘rusty’ tones) was at Central Park for these past several days, into Monday, somewhat overlooked as all the more spiffy-colorful & highly-patterned migrant species vied for attention. A lot more migrants were starting to show for observers in varied locations all around the county, thru Monday & still more are certain to be arriving-passing soon. Randall’s Island was not (apparently) producing any very-unexpected species in the last day or two, but even there, some active migration had been seen and at least 60 - 70 species of birds were found over the weekend into Monday on the island; there will be yet more to see from that location in coming weeks. 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/ --
