In Manhattan, part of New York County, which is within N.Y. City as one of 5 counties - or boroughs as often called in that city - on Sunday, April 14th -
A Purple Sandpiper was still lingering where they have wintered-thru, at Manhattans Pier 26, far west edges, this in lower-west Manhattan, along the Hudson river, with again multi-observers for 4-14. Migrants that likely just came in included a bright male Rose-breasted Grosbeak on Sunday, at Inwood Hill Park which incidentally has the tallest and oldest forest, some considered local old-growth, on Manhattan, this park at the northern-upper end of Manhattan island. Also seen Sunday, in Washington Square Park, in the Greenwich village part of lower Manhattan, was an American Redstart. These 2 songbird species which migrate in from well south of the U.S. are representative of a nice recent arrival of a variety of species just beginning to show from well-south of the U.S. border, including also some that may have come from as far south as n. Argentina- as a few Broad-winged Hawks were noticed coming thru on Sunday, past Manhattan island. Thanks to a number of keen watchers and photographers for these sightings. More to report soon from around the county. Good birding to all, Tom Fiore manhattan -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
