Manhattan, N.Y. City - Wednesday, April 17th - An adult - breeding-plumaged male Blue Grosbeak was lingering for all of Wednesday at locations in the East Village area, with many observers noting that that bird has injuries, likely from a building and-or window strike in the general vicinity but, we can’t be certain - unless there was a witness to such a strike - that such occurred right by the sites, all near and in one small area, as some collision victims will be capable of moving off from where such a hit took place, to varying extent. For example and unfortunately in a location such as Manhattan island any of thousands of structures could potentially affect migratory birds, albeit some structures and situations far more than others. And birds may fly short or even some distances off, even after some types of injuries. The Blue Grosbeak noted here was active, not stationary and moved about in its general area of first reports from at least the day prior, April 16th.
Of warblers we continue to have multiple species around Manhattan, even as many migrants will have moved on in recent nights. An Orange-crowned Warbler in one area within Central Park on 4-17, which was also photographed, could be a freshly or recently arrived individual, however a number of that species did winter thru here. In addition, the recent and somewhat early-arriving Nashville Warbler was a singing male, and at Central Park was far from where the most recent sighing of Orange-crowned took place, more than one mile away. More migrants will be coming in again quite soon all around the region, and we still may be finding some birds which actually first arrived in this city or this county some days previously, and are being discovered more currently by a lot of active observers. 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/ --
