Manhattan, New York City, with Central Park featuring a lot in below sightings, from just Wednesday, April 24th -
The ongoing BLUE Grosbeak was still at the VillageView rose garden and vicinity in Manhattans lower east East Village area, thru all of Wednesday, and again as many have observed, this bright breeding-plumaged male has some sort of injuries and at times, may look lethargic yet, has continued to feed and fly at least weakly around in the areas it has been for some days now. Hopefully it may still be recovering, if the main issue was a concussive injury by a building or window strike. - - - With up to 18 or more migratory American Warbler species, it was a good day for Manhattan and a lot of birds and their observers certainly made Central Park a place to be or to watch, with multiple not-for-profit guided walks out and about from early to end of the day Wednesday. Highlights are many from Central Park alone and at least some birds new to the year and this spring were found around the park, of course that bright male PROTHONOTARY Warbler being among the well-noted and highly-observed birds. For other warblers there also were these, at least - Nashville Warbler, Northern Parula, Yellow Warbler, Cape May Warbler, Myrtle a.k.a. Yellow-rumped Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Pine Warbler, Prairie Warbler, Palm Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, American Redstart, Worm-eating Warbler, Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush, Louisiana Waterthrush, Common Yellowthroat, and Hooded Warbler. There may have been a couple of additional newly-arrived warbler species in by Wednesday as well. Some, indeed most of the species were seen in the multiple, that is, more than just one individual - the Prothonotary is presumed only the one male, even with some reports that that one male had wandered into the Ramble area at times away from the Turtle Pond. - - - N.B., in the region, such species of warbler as Cerulean have arrived in breeding-locations, and so far a few males are in place. - - - and, more generally, a good many migrant birds have arrived to some breeding areas, some barely or not having been noted - yet! - from local migrant-watch sites such as Central Park for example. Many birds flew on to preferred breeding areas, or mostly have done so, which is not unusual, and also accords with the leafout of so many trees in the areas just north and near N.Y. City by now. Some additional highlighted species from Wednesday alone, at Central Park - Common Loon Great Egret Snowy Egret Green Heron Wood Duck Northern Shoveler Bufflehead Osprey Bald Eagle Broad-winged Hawk Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird -- White-eyed Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo -- Northern Raven Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow -- Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow - multiple flyovers. Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Red-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper -- Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Marsh Wren - seen by many including early-birder C. Roberto et al, and also late in day on not-for-profit guided bird walks. Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Cedar Waxwing Tanager species - in north end of park, by a description a LIKELY Summer Tanager male, northwest sector. Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Red Fox Sparrow - getting late for these. Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Slate-colored Junco Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak - multiples, into double-digits for all of the park, including males and female birds. Indigo Bunting Rusty Blackbird Orchard Oriole - this species is also on-territory in a few sites in Manhatttan, thru this week. Baltimore Oriole - still few. Purple Finch - multiple in multiple areas of the park and these are also appearing WIDELY in the county and in the region now. House Finch - also and always present in Central Park and the county. Pine Siskin - very scant, some have passed thru along with the Purple Finch movements and the increases of the next-listed finch species. American Goldfinch - have increased in past week generally. --- the above are ONLY some highlights and not a list of all species for the county, the island of Manhattan, and nor even for Central Park. Additional creatures in Central Park have included E. Red Bat, and some of the other -usual- mammals including Coyote, as well as Eastern Cottontail Rabbit, groundhog, chipmunk and so on. Vast variety of arthropods are out and insects are a great part of that diversity, some offering good feeding for hungry migrant-arrivals of so many birds. Thanks to the many observers out and about from -some- before sunrise to dusk, and to the many reporting via the -non-X- alerts systems and of course and especially via eBird with the Macaulay Library archives for some great photos of so many of these sightings. There are now not-for-profit guided bird walks virtually every day in Central Park AND all around the countys parks and greenspaces, which all offer benefits to bird conservation, diversity in general, and to furthering science-based observation. 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/ --
