[nysbirds-l] Tue 5/18: Brooklyn Bird Club Presents: Wildlife Track Stars presented by Glen Davis
GLEN DAVIS PRESENTS WILDLIFE TRACK STARS MAY 18 @ 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (rescheduled from an earlier date) via Zoom Bio: Glen started birding in Brooklyn at age 10 and was a regular of Brooklyn Bird Club trips and meetings until graduating high school in 1995. Since then Glen has worked a myriad of field jobs and as a tour leader. Glen resides in Cape May with his wife Kashi and currently works at Cellular Tracking Technologies as well as a counselor in the summer for Camp Cascades for Young Birders. Talk Summary: California Condors can now be “geo-fenced” to avoid wind turbine collisions! Small songbirds and so many more critters can be remotely detected by itsy bitsy radio transmitters! The world of wildlife tracking is exciting and always changing! In the 14 years since Cellular Tracking Technologies started with the worlds first GPS and Cellular platform tracking unit (originally used with Golden Eagle) many developments have led to wide variety of tracking application for wildlife. Join ornithologist and tour leader, turned electronics developer Glen Davis for a presentation and overview of the leading trends in wildlife tracking research and development. Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqcO6oqTwvG9ZRIY-G-VFnLuMcYTxPrSLF After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Tue 5/18: Brooklyn Bird Club Presents: Wildlife Track Stars presented by Glen Davis
GLEN DAVIS PRESENTS WILDLIFE TRACK STARS MAY 18 @ 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (rescheduled from an earlier date) via Zoom Bio: Glen started birding in Brooklyn at age 10 and was a regular of Brooklyn Bird Club trips and meetings until graduating high school in 1995. Since then Glen has worked a myriad of field jobs and as a tour leader. Glen resides in Cape May with his wife Kashi and currently works at Cellular Tracking Technologies as well as a counselor in the summer for Camp Cascades for Young Birders. Talk Summary: California Condors can now be “geo-fenced” to avoid wind turbine collisions! Small songbirds and so many more critters can be remotely detected by itsy bitsy radio transmitters! The world of wildlife tracking is exciting and always changing! In the 14 years since Cellular Tracking Technologies started with the worlds first GPS and Cellular platform tracking unit (originally used with Golden Eagle) many developments have led to wide variety of tracking application for wildlife. Join ornithologist and tour leader, turned electronics developer Glen Davis for a presentation and overview of the leading trends in wildlife tracking research and development. Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqcO6oqTwvG9ZRIY-G-VFnLuMcYTxPrSLF After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Sun. May 16, 2021: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 20 Species of Wood Warblers incl. Prothonotary Warbler
Central Park NYC Sunday May 16, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: A nice variety of birds today, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 20 Species of Wood Warblers including Prothonotary Bay-breasted, Cape May, and Blackburnian warblers. Canada Goose - 6 Mallard - 8 Mourning Dove - 10-15 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 Tupelo Field Chimney Swift - 4-6 Herring Gull - 12 Double-crested Cormorant - 17 Black-crowned Night-Heron - adult Reservoir (Deb-early) Red-tailed Hawk - 2 flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 uphill from Boathouse Cafe Northern Flicker 3 Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 or 3 Eastern Kingbird - pair Turtle Pond Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Upper Lobe Warbling Vireo - 6 Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Black-capped Chickadee - heard-only Tupelo Field Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 in Ramble Veery - 5 American Robin - 50-75 (not counting nestlings) Gray Catbird - 20-30 Cedar Waxwing - 5-10 (Tupelo Field & east end of Turtle Pond) Baltimore Oriole - 5-7 Red-winged Blackbird - 3-5 Common Grackle - 5-10 Ovenbird - 5-10 Northern Waterthrush - south of Azalea Pond Black-and-white Warbler - 5-7 Prothonotary Warbler - female Upper Lobe (first-of-season for Central Park)* Common Yellowthroat - 3-5 American Redstart - 15-20 Cape May Warbler - 2 (male & female) in Ramble Northern Parula - 5-20 Magnolia Warbler - 5-8 Bay-breasted Warbler - 5-7 Blackburnian Warbler - 6-8 Yellow Warbler - 3-5 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 4 Blackpoll Warbler - 5-10 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3-5 females Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3-5 Prairie Warbler - male Belvedere Castle Black-throated Green Warbler - 3-5 Canada Warbler - 2 Upper Lobe Wilson's Warbler - 2 or 3 (Oven & Turtle Pond) Scarlet Tanager - male Maintenance Field Northern Cardinal - 5-10 -- Selected tweets: *the Prothonotary Warbler was reported early this afternoon by Mary Beth Kooper @imarybethnyc on twitter. Thread here: https://twitter.com/imarybethnyc/status/1393964699562168321 David Barrett @BirdCentralPark posted a photos of an Olive-sided Flycatcher he found close to Azalea Pond. Here's the link: https://twitter.com/BirdCentralPark/status/139435008892932/photo/1 -- Deb Allen -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Sun. May 16, 2021: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 20 Species of Wood Warblers incl. Prothonotary Warbler
Central Park NYC Sunday May 16, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: A nice variety of birds today, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 20 Species of Wood Warblers including Prothonotary Bay-breasted, Cape May, and Blackburnian warblers. Canada Goose - 6 Mallard - 8 Mourning Dove - 10-15 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 Tupelo Field Chimney Swift - 4-6 Herring Gull - 12 Double-crested Cormorant - 17 Black-crowned Night-Heron - adult Reservoir (Deb-early) Red-tailed Hawk - 2 flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 uphill from Boathouse Cafe Northern Flicker 3 Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 or 3 Eastern Kingbird - pair Turtle Pond Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Upper Lobe Warbling Vireo - 6 Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Black-capped Chickadee - heard-only Tupelo Field Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 in Ramble Veery - 5 American Robin - 50-75 (not counting nestlings) Gray Catbird - 20-30 Cedar Waxwing - 5-10 (Tupelo Field & east end of Turtle Pond) Baltimore Oriole - 5-7 Red-winged Blackbird - 3-5 Common Grackle - 5-10 Ovenbird - 5-10 Northern Waterthrush - south of Azalea Pond Black-and-white Warbler - 5-7 Prothonotary Warbler - female Upper Lobe (first-of-season for Central Park)* Common Yellowthroat - 3-5 American Redstart - 15-20 Cape May Warbler - 2 (male & female) in Ramble Northern Parula - 5-20 Magnolia Warbler - 5-8 Bay-breasted Warbler - 5-7 Blackburnian Warbler - 6-8 Yellow Warbler - 3-5 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 4 Blackpoll Warbler - 5-10 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3-5 females Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3-5 Prairie Warbler - male Belvedere Castle Black-throated Green Warbler - 3-5 Canada Warbler - 2 Upper Lobe Wilson's Warbler - 2 or 3 (Oven & Turtle Pond) Scarlet Tanager - male Maintenance Field Northern Cardinal - 5-10 -- Selected tweets: *the Prothonotary Warbler was reported early this afternoon by Mary Beth Kooper @imarybethnyc on twitter. Thread here: https://twitter.com/imarybethnyc/status/1393964699562168321 David Barrett @BirdCentralPark posted a photos of an Olive-sided Flycatcher he found close to Azalea Pond. Here's the link: https://twitter.com/BirdCentralPark/status/139435008892932/photo/1 -- Deb Allen -- 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/ --
RE: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County (NYC) - Sun., 5/16 - Central Park Prothonotary Warbler & 25+ add'l. warbler species there, etc.
To clarify, the Yellow-headed Blackbird is on tje EAST side of the Albany International Airport, at the end of Sicker Rd. There are two pieces of Sicker Rd, one on each side of the Airport. Scott Stoner, Loudonville. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Original message From: Thomas Fiore Date: 5/16/21 17:28 (GMT-05:00) To: NYS Birds Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County (NYC) - Sun., 5/16 - Central Park Prothonotary Warbler & 25+ add'l. warbler species there, etc. The Yellow-headed Blackbird was continuing to be seen at Albany airport’s west side (Albany County, NY), by observers on-scene there into Sunday afternoon - May 16th.--Sunday, May 16th -The female Prothonotary Warbler in Central Park, first reported on eBird in the morning, was seen by many as the day continued, at the northern end of The Lake, with the closest park entrance being that on West 77th Street & Central Park West. A lot of the views were had from “Oak Bridge” which sits astride the northern narrow arm of the lake. This appears to be the first sighting of this species for Manhattan this year, and perhaps just the 2nd in N.Y. County (an earlier one was also photographed at Randall’s Island this spring). A minimum of 25 other warbler species were also being found in Central Park, & many all across Manhattan in its dozens of parks larger & smaller. Among those many, Bay-breasted Warblers in double-digit numbers (including that many within Central Park alone, as well as many in other locations) were delighting a lot of observers. This continued a several-days-long trend of that species’ increase in the county. At least a few warbler species now running ‘late’ (for here) added to the diversity being found, including Pine & Palm Warbler[s].There have been some Gray-cheeked-type Thrushes showing in multiple locations in N.Y. County, & at least a few of these could - potentially - be Bicknell’s Thrush (which is not actually a mega-rare migrant in this area, but is rarely-identified with complete certainty away from the species’ pockets of specialized habitat for both breeding, & winterng (the latter all in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean). Audio of any full song for these closely related species (Gray-cheeked &/or Bicknell’s) is a useful way of discerning the ID to species-level, on migration-passage observations. I have heard what sounded to my ear as Gray-cheeked singing, while observing a few of them, and counting as that species on my own list, this month - all in just the last few days in Manhattan. Being out at both 5 am & 8:30 pm can help. (N.B., a Bicknell’s Thrush has been reported as singing from Prospect Park with over a dozen observers, on Sunday, 5/16 - and also of interest at Prospect Park in Brooklyn (Kings County, N.Y. City) have been sightings of Mourning Warbler with multiple experienced observers/photos.)Among notable sightings for Saturday, May 15th were a Purple Martin seen by a small group of keen & sharp-eyed observers, at Central Park (with thanks to A. Burke for the spotting), as well as a well-described Yellow-throated Warbler at the small Canal Park in lower Manhattan (thanks to A. Evans for that report). And there certainly were many many other great sightings all around the county for these past several days into Sunday.We’re working towards the 33rd warbler species of the spring for N.Y. County, with one species so far being unconfirmed, albeit possibly having moved through in some of the recent excellent migration (that would be Golden-winged Warbler). Lots of other excellent finds for Sunday 5/16 which among the many, include both species of Cuckoo (Black-billed the low-volume migrant this day, while Yellow-billed Cuckoos were nearly-common and some were calling well in at least 3 parks in manhattan on the early morn’), Olive-sided Flycatcher (seen as well as heard), at least 3 species of singing Empidonax (Acadian, Willow, Least) and even E. Phoebe still around (but scarcer now -here- than Great Crested Flycatcher or E. Kingbird, & E. Wood-Pewee that’s been increasing as expected now), all six of our regularly-occuring Vireo species (Philadelphia the latest of these to be passing thru), additional finds of Summer Tanagers (of both sexes), and a whole lot more.Perhaps a write-up with more of these many migrants on another day.good peak-spring landbird migration to all,Tom Fioremanhattan--NYSbirds-L List Info:http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htmhttp://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htmhttp://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htmARCHIVES:1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01Please submit your observations to eBird:http://ebird.org/content/ebird/-- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm
RE: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County (NYC) - Sun., 5/16 - Central Park Prothonotary Warbler & 25+ add'l. warbler species there, etc.
To clarify, the Yellow-headed Blackbird is on tje EAST side of the Albany International Airport, at the end of Sicker Rd. There are two pieces of Sicker Rd, one on each side of the Airport. Scott Stoner, Loudonville. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Original message From: Thomas Fiore Date: 5/16/21 17:28 (GMT-05:00) To: NYS Birds Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County (NYC) - Sun., 5/16 - Central Park Prothonotary Warbler & 25+ add'l. warbler species there, etc. The Yellow-headed Blackbird was continuing to be seen at Albany airport’s west side (Albany County, NY), by observers on-scene there into Sunday afternoon - May 16th.--Sunday, May 16th -The female Prothonotary Warbler in Central Park, first reported on eBird in the morning, was seen by many as the day continued, at the northern end of The Lake, with the closest park entrance being that on West 77th Street & Central Park West. A lot of the views were had from “Oak Bridge” which sits astride the northern narrow arm of the lake. This appears to be the first sighting of this species for Manhattan this year, and perhaps just the 2nd in N.Y. County (an earlier one was also photographed at Randall’s Island this spring). A minimum of 25 other warbler species were also being found in Central Park, & many all across Manhattan in its dozens of parks larger & smaller. Among those many, Bay-breasted Warblers in double-digit numbers (including that many within Central Park alone, as well as many in other locations) were delighting a lot of observers. This continued a several-days-long trend of that species’ increase in the county. At least a few warbler species now running ‘late’ (for here) added to the diversity being found, including Pine & Palm Warbler[s].There have been some Gray-cheeked-type Thrushes showing in multiple locations in N.Y. County, & at least a few of these could - potentially - be Bicknell’s Thrush (which is not actually a mega-rare migrant in this area, but is rarely-identified with complete certainty away from the species’ pockets of specialized habitat for both breeding, & winterng (the latter all in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean). Audio of any full song for these closely related species (Gray-cheeked &/or Bicknell’s) is a useful way of discerning the ID to species-level, on migration-passage observations. I have heard what sounded to my ear as Gray-cheeked singing, while observing a few of them, and counting as that species on my own list, this month - all in just the last few days in Manhattan. Being out at both 5 am & 8:30 pm can help. (N.B., a Bicknell’s Thrush has been reported as singing from Prospect Park with over a dozen observers, on Sunday, 5/16 - and also of interest at Prospect Park in Brooklyn (Kings County, N.Y. City) have been sightings of Mourning Warbler with multiple experienced observers/photos.)Among notable sightings for Saturday, May 15th were a Purple Martin seen by a small group of keen & sharp-eyed observers, at Central Park (with thanks to A. Burke for the spotting), as well as a well-described Yellow-throated Warbler at the small Canal Park in lower Manhattan (thanks to A. Evans for that report). And there certainly were many many other great sightings all around the county for these past several days into Sunday.We’re working towards the 33rd warbler species of the spring for N.Y. County, with one species so far being unconfirmed, albeit possibly having moved through in some of the recent excellent migration (that would be Golden-winged Warbler). Lots of other excellent finds for Sunday 5/16 which among the many, include both species of Cuckoo (Black-billed the low-volume migrant this day, while Yellow-billed Cuckoos were nearly-common and some were calling well in at least 3 parks in manhattan on the early morn’), Olive-sided Flycatcher (seen as well as heard), at least 3 species of singing Empidonax (Acadian, Willow, Least) and even E. Phoebe still around (but scarcer now -here- than Great Crested Flycatcher or E. Kingbird, & E. Wood-Pewee that’s been increasing as expected now), all six of our regularly-occuring Vireo species (Philadelphia the latest of these to be passing thru), additional finds of Summer Tanagers (of both sexes), and a whole lot more.Perhaps a write-up with more of these many migrants on another day.good peak-spring landbird migration to all,Tom Fioremanhattan--NYSbirds-L List Info:http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htmhttp://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htmhttp://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htmARCHIVES:1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01Please submit your observations to eBird:http://ebird.org/content/ebird/-- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm
[nysbirds-l] N.Y. County (NYC) - Sun., 5/16 - Central Park Prothonotary Warbler & 25+ add'l. warbler species there, etc.
The Yellow-headed Blackbird was continuing to be seen at Albany airport’s west side (Albany County, NY), by observers on-scene there into Sunday afternoon - May 16th. -- Sunday, May 16th - The female Prothonotary Warbler in Central Park, first reported on eBird in the morning, was seen by many as the day continued, at the northern end of The Lake, with the closest park entrance being that on West 77th Street & Central Park West. A lot of the views were had from “Oak Bridge” which sits astride the northern narrow arm of the lake. This appears to be the first sighting of this species for Manhattan this year, and perhaps just the 2nd in N.Y. County (an earlier one was also photographed at Randall’s Island this spring). A minimum of 25 other warbler species were also being found in Central Park, & many all across Manhattan in its dozens of parks larger & smaller. Among those many, Bay-breasted Warblers in double-digit numbers (including that many within Central Park alone, as well as many in other locations) were delighting a lot of observers. This continued a several-days-long trend of that species’ increase in the county. At least a few warbler species now running ‘late’ (for here) added to the diversity being found, including Pine & Palm Warbler[s]. There have been some Gray-cheeked-type Thrushes showing in multiple locations in N.Y. County, & at least a few of these could - potentially - be Bicknell’s Thrush (which is not actually a mega-rare migrant in this area, but is rarely-identified with complete certainty away from the species’ pockets of specialized habitat for both breeding, & winterng (the latter all in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean). Audio of any full song for these closely related species (Gray-cheeked &/or Bicknell’s) is a useful way of discerning the ID to species-level, on migration-passage observations. I have heard what sounded to my ear as Gray-cheeked singing, while observing a few of them, and counting as that species on my own list, this month - all in just the last few days in Manhattan. Being out at both 5 am & 8:30 pm can help. (N.B., a Bicknell’s Thrush has been reported as singing from Prospect Park with over a dozen observers, on Sunday, 5/16 - and also of interest at Prospect Park in Brooklyn (Kings County, N.Y. City) have been sightings of Mourning Warbler with multiple experienced observers/photos.) Among notable sightings for Saturday, May 15th were a Purple Martin seen by a small group of keen & sharp-eyed observers, at Central Park (with thanks to A. Burke for the spotting), as well as a well-described Yellow-throated Warbler at the small Canal Park in lower Manhattan (thanks to A. Evans for that report). And there certainly were many many other great sightings all around the county for these past several days into Sunday. We’re working towards the 33rd warbler species of the spring for N.Y. County, with one species so far being unconfirmed, albeit possibly having moved through in some of the recent excellent migration (that would be Golden-winged Warbler). Lots of other excellent finds for Sunday 5/16 which among the many, include both species of Cuckoo (Black-billed the low-volume migrant this day, while Yellow-billed Cuckoos were nearly-common and some were calling well in at least 3 parks in manhattan on the early morn’), Olive-sided Flycatcher (seen as well as heard), at least 3 species of singing Empidonax (Acadian, Willow, Least) and even E. Phoebe still around (but scarcer now -here- than Great Crested Flycatcher or E. Kingbird, & E. Wood-Pewee that’s been increasing as expected now), all six of our regularly-occuring Vireo species (Philadelphia the latest of these to be passing thru), additional finds of Summer Tanagers (of both sexes), and a whole lot more. Perhaps a write-up with more of these many migrants on another day. good peak-spring landbird migration 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] N.Y. County (NYC) - Sun., 5/16 - Central Park Prothonotary Warbler & 25+ add'l. warbler species there, etc.
The Yellow-headed Blackbird was continuing to be seen at Albany airport’s west side (Albany County, NY), by observers on-scene there into Sunday afternoon - May 16th. -- Sunday, May 16th - The female Prothonotary Warbler in Central Park, first reported on eBird in the morning, was seen by many as the day continued, at the northern end of The Lake, with the closest park entrance being that on West 77th Street & Central Park West. A lot of the views were had from “Oak Bridge” which sits astride the northern narrow arm of the lake. This appears to be the first sighting of this species for Manhattan this year, and perhaps just the 2nd in N.Y. County (an earlier one was also photographed at Randall’s Island this spring). A minimum of 25 other warbler species were also being found in Central Park, & many all across Manhattan in its dozens of parks larger & smaller. Among those many, Bay-breasted Warblers in double-digit numbers (including that many within Central Park alone, as well as many in other locations) were delighting a lot of observers. This continued a several-days-long trend of that species’ increase in the county. At least a few warbler species now running ‘late’ (for here) added to the diversity being found, including Pine & Palm Warbler[s]. There have been some Gray-cheeked-type Thrushes showing in multiple locations in N.Y. County, & at least a few of these could - potentially - be Bicknell’s Thrush (which is not actually a mega-rare migrant in this area, but is rarely-identified with complete certainty away from the species’ pockets of specialized habitat for both breeding, & winterng (the latter all in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean). Audio of any full song for these closely related species (Gray-cheeked &/or Bicknell’s) is a useful way of discerning the ID to species-level, on migration-passage observations. I have heard what sounded to my ear as Gray-cheeked singing, while observing a few of them, and counting as that species on my own list, this month - all in just the last few days in Manhattan. Being out at both 5 am & 8:30 pm can help. (N.B., a Bicknell’s Thrush has been reported as singing from Prospect Park with over a dozen observers, on Sunday, 5/16 - and also of interest at Prospect Park in Brooklyn (Kings County, N.Y. City) have been sightings of Mourning Warbler with multiple experienced observers/photos.) Among notable sightings for Saturday, May 15th were a Purple Martin seen by a small group of keen & sharp-eyed observers, at Central Park (with thanks to A. Burke for the spotting), as well as a well-described Yellow-throated Warbler at the small Canal Park in lower Manhattan (thanks to A. Evans for that report). And there certainly were many many other great sightings all around the county for these past several days into Sunday. We’re working towards the 33rd warbler species of the spring for N.Y. County, with one species so far being unconfirmed, albeit possibly having moved through in some of the recent excellent migration (that would be Golden-winged Warbler). Lots of other excellent finds for Sunday 5/16 which among the many, include both species of Cuckoo (Black-billed the low-volume migrant this day, while Yellow-billed Cuckoos were nearly-common and some were calling well in at least 3 parks in manhattan on the early morn’), Olive-sided Flycatcher (seen as well as heard), at least 3 species of singing Empidonax (Acadian, Willow, Least) and even E. Phoebe still around (but scarcer now -here- than Great Crested Flycatcher or E. Kingbird, & E. Wood-Pewee that’s been increasing as expected now), all six of our regularly-occuring Vireo species (Philadelphia the latest of these to be passing thru), additional finds of Summer Tanagers (of both sexes), and a whole lot more. Perhaps a write-up with more of these many migrants on another day. good peak-spring landbird migration 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Western Grebe - NO, King Eiders - YES
I searched for the Western Grebe at Calvert Vaux Park today from 7:00-8:30 but could not relocate it. Shortly after that I found the two King Eiders resting on the grassy spit as usual at Great Kills Park. Dan Scheiman Little Rock, AR (originally East Meadow, NY) -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Western Grebe - NO, King Eiders - YES
I searched for the Western Grebe at Calvert Vaux Park today from 7:00-8:30 but could not relocate it. Shortly after that I found the two King Eiders resting on the grassy spit as usual at Great Kills Park. Dan Scheiman Little Rock, AR (originally East Meadow, NY) -- 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/ --
