southeast-NY birders, take a lunch-birding break or after-work break if you can... ...................................... Wednesday, 25 May, 2016 Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City
A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT found by Chris Cooper at Strawberry Fields in the early morning was still present there about 2 hrs. later. This almost certainly tops the list of a minimum of 22 additional Warbler species still moving thru &/or lingering in the park this 25th of May, with a very strong push of migrants of many kinds having been on the move last night into this a.m. Among the other warblers, & how relatively numerous some still are, is suggested from the 4 &1/4 hrs. I took walking & fast-walking (where bird activity was limited) from 106th to 60th Sts. & from C.P. West to Fifth Ave. & back again, the most time being put in at the Ramble areas, the reservoir-bridle path section, esp. the n.w. parts, & the n. end of the park, esp. the far NW "corner" of. A Philadelphia Vireo was still at an area of the NW- most part of the Ramble where seen on other days the past week. It was singing & moving a bit, west of the Belvedere Castle. (n.b., there are multiple Red-eyed Vireos throughout the park, including singing at the same area). Other species of note this morning (so far!!) have included some Empidonax flycatchers of various kinds & Olive-sided Flycatchers in a couple of places, including the Ramble. It's reasonable to think that more species of all kinds of (at least) land-bird migrants may turn up this day in late May. The below are merely what I was able to observe, & there have been far more of some species seen in various locations by other active birders. Yellow-breasted Chat (Strawberry Fields, & thanks to Chris Cooper!) Tennessee Warbler (non-singing, n. woods) Northern Parula (at least 5 heard, a few add'l. seen) Yellow Warbler (multiple males & females, seen & h.) Chestnut-sided Warbler (modest no's. of fem. & male) Magnolia Warbler (good double-digit no's. of each sex) Cape May Warbler (female, NW reservoir-bridle path - N.B. - males are still being seen by other birders) Black-throated Blue Warbler (more females than male - but males still being seen in no's.) Yellow-rumped [Myrtle] Warbler (scarce but still around) Black-throated Green Warbler (at least 2, each sex) Blackburnian Warbler (female, n. woods - N.B. - multiple males are being seen elesewhere) Prairie Warbler (female, Great Hill, west edge, 9:15 a.m.) Bay-breasted Warbler (females, N. End n. of Blockhouse - N.B. - males are still being seen elsewhere) Blackpoll Warbler (multiple in many locations, both sexes) Black-and-white Warbler (I noticed just 2, one of each sex) American Redstart (prob. most numerous warbler of day = 100 +++) Worm-eating Warbler ("late" but not unprecedently, Ramble, SE sector) Ovenbird (not a whole lot & many, not all were silent, presumed females) Northern Waterthrush (singing at "oven", & seen in a few other locations) Mourning Warbler (Strawberry Fields, also definitively at Loch- W'flower Meadow - NB - also being seen elsewhere, by others!!) Common Yellowthroat (prob. 2nd-most numerous warbler species this day; many females & 1st-year males, adult males also!) Wilson's Warbler (at least several, some quite high - 15-20 ft. while foraging - Ramble, n. woods, etc.) Canada Warbler (multiple but not all that many, both sexes) Other migrant & "visiting" species present today Wed. 5/25: Double-crested Cormorant Great Egret Snowy Egret (the usual n. end fly-overs) Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Canada Goose Wood Duck Gadwall Mallard Red-tailed Hawk (including the adult sitting in center of Sheep Meadow lawn, as a CP mower-machine driver had to circle around it) American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Spotted Sandpiper (reservoir) Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull (reservoir) Great Black-backed Gull (reservoir) Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo (at least one, n. woods, n. of Blockhouse) Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Yellow-shafted Flicker Olive-sided Flycatcher (several, Ramble & n. woods areas) Eastern Wood-Pewee (still in extremely minimal numbers, we will see if more show in Central) Empidonax [genus] Flycatchers (more than several, including Acadian Flycatcher heard in the Ramble, n. section, but mostly not heard, or not studied well this a.m., however some that were 'likely' included Least and "Willow-Alder types".) Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird (nest areas & etc.) Warbling Vireo (many, nest areas etc.) Philadelphia Vireo (west of the Castle, seen singing & moving about a bit) Red-eyed Vireo (many, a fresh "push" of these, again in all areas of the park this day) Blue Jay American Crow Northern Rough-winged Swallow (esp. at reservoir) Barn Swallow (over Sheep Meadow, N. Meadow, Meer, & esp. reservoir) Black-capped Chickadee (several on several territories) Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren (1, heard) House Wren (at many nesting territories) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (at nest territories) Veery (2 seen, Ramble & n. woods) Gray-cheeked Thrush (multiple, at least 1 singing - with a possibility at this time of Bicknell's, but none fully definitive which would entail hearing one sing) Swainson's Thrush (many, including 15+ in Ramble, & 40+ in n. end, esp. n. woods) Wood Thrush (several on nest territories) American Robin Gray Catbird (many) Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher (in nest areas) European Starling Cedar Waxwing (multiple in small to modest flocks) Scarlet Tanager (multiple males seen & heard, incl. at: Hallett Sanctuary area, Pinetum center area, n.w. part of res./bridle path, n. woods; also multiple females) Eastern Towhee (location undisclosed, a poss. nester - scarce as such in C.P.) Chipping Sparrow (near nest territories) Song Sparrow (several, regular nester) Lincoln's Sparrow (1 seen) Swamp Sparrow (1 seen) White-throated Sparrow (several, a scarce 'summering' species in Central & other NYC locations) Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak (modest no's. including at least a few singing males) Indigo Bunting (1 male seen) Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole (lingering 1st-year male, will be watched in coming days) Baltimore Oriole (many including multiple at nest areas) House Finch American Goldfinch (uncommon but still present) Evening Grosbeak House Sparrow ........... Priorly, the past 2 days featured far fewer species or numbers of individual migrants, although up to 15 species of warblers were found on Monday 5/23, and at least one dozen warbler species on Tuesday, 5/24. Many but not all of this variety were found along the bridle path areas. Good late-May birding, & thanks to many quiet observers of so many great migrants, Tom Fiore Manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --