Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - Saturday and Sunday, April 20-21st Some of the many species seen for the weekend just in or over Central Park are listed below, including the at-least 12 species of migratory American warblers.
Common Loon - multiple early-morning flyovers, and a couple still on the CP reservoir. Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret - flyovers Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Atlantic Brant - few flyovers Wood Duck - lingering male. Gadwall American Black Duck - few. Mallard Northern Shoveler Green-winged Teal - same lingering pair at The Pool. Lesser Scaup - 3, with 2 bright males to Sat., 4-20. Bufflehead - few lingering or passing. Hooded Merganser - 2 females, lingering, reservoir. Red-breasted Merganser - hen, reservoir. Ruddy Duck - few remained. Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Broad-winged Hawk - at least one flyover; also some seen from elsewhere around Manhattan, etc. Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Virginia Rail - as first noted in ebird reporting from Sat., 4-20 at The Pond area in s.-e. part of park. Many observers all day Sunday. American Coot Laughing Gull - reservoir plus a few flyovers. Ring-billed Gull American Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull feral Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Chimney Swift - multiple flyovers continuing and passing all of past week and weekend. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - several, into Sunday. Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Yellow-shafted Flicker Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher White-eyed Vireo - one. Blue-headed Vireo - multiple, fairly good numbers. Yellow-throated Vireo - continuing. Warbling Vireo - few. Red-eyed Vireo - few. Northern Raven - several sightings. Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow - increased, and calling in some areas. Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow - the 3 swallow species listed have been regular in Central Park all the past week and weekend. Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren - multiple. Winter Wren - good passages, thru Sunday at Central Park. Golden-crowned Kinglet - few, lingering thru Sunday. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - many. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush - many. Wood Thrush - several, this species also seen this past week in some other Manhattan locations. American Robin Gray Catbird - still in v. modest numbers. Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling House Sparrow Cedar Waxwing - nice numbers for all of the park. Eastern Towhee - multiple. Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow - N. end area. Savannah Sparrow Red Fox Sparrow - still some in various areas of the park, including within the Ramble and elsewhere. Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow - many. Slate-colored Junco - small numbers remained. Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak - at least several, and not the first days of occurrence. Indigo Bunting - several. This species has been appearing lately in a few other Manhattan locations as well. Red-winged Blackbird Rusty Blackbird - several, continuing. Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole - several, and singing. Additionally seen in some other sites in Manhattan, including where they have bred. Baltimore Oriole - few, and some not all that vocal. Purple Finch - multiple, but in v. modest numbers. House Finch American Goldfinch - fairly good numbers passing. -- Northern Parula - at least several thru the weekend. Yellow Warbler - several, thru the weekend. Myrtle -a.k.a. Yellow-rumped- Warbler - modest numbers for what are still to come thru. Black-throated Green Warbler - at least several, in various sectors of Central Park. Pine Warbler - still passing, in modest numbers. Prairie Warbler - several in various areas of the park, this species also elsewhere in Manhattan. Palm Warbler - many, continuing in many areas. Black-and-white Warbler - multiple, scattered thru the park in modest numbers. Ovenbird - few, widely scattered locations including the Ramble of Central Park. Northern Waterthrush - multiple. Louisiana Waterthrush - at least a few lingered thru both days of this weekend. Common Yellowthroat - scarce, but newly-arrived singing males are around, also in a few other sites in Manhattan. -- and quite likely some additional species for Central Park alone this weekend. - - - The Blue Grosbeak was still in the Manhattan lower-East Village area at and near East 3rd-4th Streets thru Sunday, 4-21 and was photographed in that area again, with multiple observers. -- An adult-male-plumaged Hooded Warbler had continued in Madison Square Park in Manhattan into at-least April 19th, possibly still there into the weekend. -- Seaside Sparrow had been confirmed from the Pier 44 area -W. 44th St.- of Manhattan's Hudson River shore from back on April 16th. - - - - We are seeing an interesting increase of, in particular, American Lady and Red Admiral butterflies arriving as migrants this past week, and also some Painted -Vannessa cardui- Lady butterflies as well. Other butterflies, and the first of Common Green Darners and a few other odonate species are among many, many insect species being seen recently in Central Park alone. Thanks to the hundreds of observers out and about with so many sightings and reports, plus photos-video-audio, via the group-me and other newer alerts systems and of course via eBird. 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/ --