N.Y. County (in N.Y. City), including Manhattan, Randall’s Island, & Governors Island Thursday, June 2nd:
Cliff Swallow appears to have selected the site[s] at Randall’s Island for nesting, in N.Y. County; similarly with other N.Y. City counties, perhaps a trend that will increase; time may tell. [Thanks to A. Cunningham & others who have followed developments on that isle of the county!] The other swallows here (in N.Y. County) include Tree, N. Rough-winged, and Barn, all of which are more numerous and more regularly seen on through the summer. There is at least the *possibility* for Purple Martin to nest in N.Y. County, the more so if some nest-structures appropriate for that species were placed in areas where appropriate (and preferably, fully-protected!) The following 16 American Warbler species were still present (or quite-late passing through) for Thursday, June 2nd in New York County. ALL of the 16 species were (also) present in one park, Central Park. Many individuals of some of the more-numerous species were also found in other parks & greens-spaces. At least 3 species are *potential* breeders - in N.Y. County. Some of the migrants are running a bit late, yet there are precedents for most, and likely all for early June appearances here. There are also precedents for some of these, and other migrant species, to linger as lone ’singletons’ which may persist far into summer, and some even stay through to when ‘southbound' migration (which will start up in a few weeks from now) begins for this area. A fair no. of other types of birds can sometimes also fall into these categories, yet warblers are quite regular amongst the (locally) late-movers and some-time ‘lingerers'. American Redstart* (while less likely than 2 noted-below, is a poss. breeder in N.Y. County, & in N.Y. City more-broadly) Blackpoll Warbler (multiple) Northern Parula (multiple) Yellow Warbler* (poss./potential breeder in the county) Common Yellowthroat* (poss./potential breeder in the county) Northern Waterthrush (multiple) Magnolia Warbler (multiple) Canada Warbler (at least 2) Ovenbird (multiple) Black-and-white Warbler (multiple) Black-throated Blue Warbler Mourning Warbler (multiple) Blackburnian Warbler (multiple) Black-throated Green Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler (at least 3) Wilson's Warbler --- [Note also for Friday, June 3rd, multiple Mourning Warblers are still passing and some of these are singing males, the ‘last’ of definite migrants that typically move through in numbers amongst the many Parulidae, hereabouts and in general for spring migration… there are also multiple other warbler spp. and some additional late-migrants still moving in this county.] Scarlet Tanager[s] that are still around, esp. if lingering on, may be watched for any signs of pairing. The same of other species which could be -but are not well-known as- potential nesters for the county; that including the outlying isles besides just most-watched Manhattan and also besides the most-visited portions of most-popular parks. ... Thanks to all who are continuing to observe even as migrations have wound down; there are of course also courting/nesting birds all around us. 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/ --
