[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Sun. Sept. 12, 2021: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 13 Species of Wood Warblers incl. Nashville & Bay-breasted
Central Park NYC Sunday September 12, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 13 Species of Wood Warblers including Nashville Bay-breasted Warblers. Canada Goose - 12 Mallard - 20 Mourning Dove - 10-15 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 3 Chimney Swift - 7-10 Herring Gull - 2 dozen Great Black-backed Gull - 6 Black-crowned Night-Heron - low flyover Lake Red-tailed Hawk - 2 adults (pair) Summer House, 2 flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 2 (male female) Swampy Pin Oak Northern Flicker - 4 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 Ramble Red-eyed Vireo - 10-15 Blue Jay - 3-5 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Humming Tombstone (Erica Rosengart) Swainson's Thrush - around 30 Wood Thrush - 5 American Robin - around 20 Gray Catbird - 5-10 Cedar Waxwing - 6 flocks of 8-12 birds each Common Grackle - 3-5 Ovenbird - 2 Tupelo Field Northern Waterthrush - Oven Blue-winged Warbler - 1 first-fall Maintenance Field Black-and-white Warbler - 3-5 Nashville Warbler - near Summer House (Ryan Serio) Common Yellowthroat - 1 Tupelo Field American Redstart - 20-25 Northern Parula - 10-15 Magnolia Warbler - 5-6 Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 Humming Tombstone Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 Ramble Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 (1 male, 2 females) Gill Overlook Wilson's Warbler - 1 Oven Northern Cardinal - 7 including adults feeding juveniles Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 6 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. Sept. 12, 2021: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 13 Species of Wood Warblers incl. Nashville & Bay-breasted
Central Park NYC Sunday September 12, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 13 Species of Wood Warblers including Nashville Bay-breasted Warblers. Canada Goose - 12 Mallard - 20 Mourning Dove - 10-15 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 3 Chimney Swift - 7-10 Herring Gull - 2 dozen Great Black-backed Gull - 6 Black-crowned Night-Heron - low flyover Lake Red-tailed Hawk - 2 adults (pair) Summer House, 2 flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 2 (male female) Swampy Pin Oak Northern Flicker - 4 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 Ramble Red-eyed Vireo - 10-15 Blue Jay - 3-5 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Humming Tombstone (Erica Rosengart) Swainson's Thrush - around 30 Wood Thrush - 5 American Robin - around 20 Gray Catbird - 5-10 Cedar Waxwing - 6 flocks of 8-12 birds each Common Grackle - 3-5 Ovenbird - 2 Tupelo Field Northern Waterthrush - Oven Blue-winged Warbler - 1 first-fall Maintenance Field Black-and-white Warbler - 3-5 Nashville Warbler - near Summer House (Ryan Serio) Common Yellowthroat - 1 Tupelo Field American Redstart - 20-25 Northern Parula - 10-15 Magnolia Warbler - 5-6 Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 Humming Tombstone Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 Ramble Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 (1 male, 2 females) Gill Overlook Wilson's Warbler - 1 Oven Northern Cardinal - 7 including adults feeding juveniles Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 6 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] Chipping Sparrows on the move?
There were about thirty feeding, mostly juveniles on the grasses which made their way through the stone pebble driveway 20' by 60' driveway, in my yard. Orhan Birol Shelter Island -- 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] Chipping Sparrows on the move?
There were about thirty feeding, mostly juveniles on the grasses which made their way through the stone pebble driveway 20' by 60' driveway, in my yard. Orhan Birol Shelter Island -- 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] Year-to-date results for Stone Bridge Nighthawk Watch
Here are the results so far in 2021 for the SB Nighthawk Watch: August 27th - 128 nighthawks August 28th - 30 nighthawks August 29th - 49 nighthawks August 30th - 145 nighthawks August 31st - 45 nighthawks September 1st - 0 nighthawks September 2nd - 9 nighthawks September 3rd - 9 nighthawks September 4th - 64 nighthawks September 5th – 9 nighthawks September 6th – 30 nighthawks September 7th- 56 nighthawks September 8th – 25 nighthawks September 9th – 18 nighthawks September 10th - 56 nighthawks September 11th – 9 nighthawks The results are well off the pace compared to the past four years (2017-2020). Last year at this time we had more than 1,700 nighthawksand what's with the number 9?! John Turner Stone Bridge Nighthawk Watch Directions: Long Island Expressway to Nicolls Road (Exit 62). Take Nicolls Road north to the end where it joins State Route 25A. Make a right heading east on 25A. Make left at first light onto Main Street. Take this north to end where it forms a t-intersection. Look to left and you'll see the stone bridge crossing over water. Make a right and immediately find a parking space on the road across from or near the old Setauket Post Office. -- 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] Year-to-date results for Stone Bridge Nighthawk Watch
Here are the results so far in 2021 for the SB Nighthawk Watch: August 27th - 128 nighthawks August 28th - 30 nighthawks August 29th - 49 nighthawks August 30th - 145 nighthawks August 31st - 45 nighthawks September 1st - 0 nighthawks September 2nd - 9 nighthawks September 3rd - 9 nighthawks September 4th - 64 nighthawks September 5th – 9 nighthawks September 6th – 30 nighthawks September 7th- 56 nighthawks September 8th – 25 nighthawks September 9th – 18 nighthawks September 10th - 56 nighthawks September 11th – 9 nighthawks The results are well off the pace compared to the past four years (2017-2020). Last year at this time we had more than 1,700 nighthawksand what's with the number 9?! John Turner Stone Bridge Nighthawk Watch Directions: Long Island Expressway to Nicolls Road (Exit 62). Take Nicolls Road north to the end where it joins State Route 25A. Make a right heading east on 25A. Make left at first light onto Main Street. Take this north to end where it forms a t-intersection. Look to left and you'll see the stone bridge crossing over water. Make a right and immediately find a parking space on the road across from or near the old Setauket Post Office. -- 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 - Sept. 11th: 25+ warbler spp., Dickcissel, etc.
On Saturday, 11th of September, at least 25 species of warblers were found in N.Y. County (N.Y.C.) and of those at least 24 species were seen in Central Park alone on the day (with many also occurring in various other parks and greenspaces), although so far, no one had re-found or found any more of Connecticut Warbler[s], which are certainly still very much in the region as well as moving now. More than 120 species of birds were seen in N.Y. County on Saturday, Sept. 11th - that with a very large number of birders out and about! (The Townsend’s Warbler from Brooklyn’s Green-Wood cemetery was apparently not re-found for Saturday, after at least its' 2-day stay there, but it’s very possible it *could* be lingering &/or wandering a bit within even that rather large space, which contains so many trees that could be used by the species. In any event, Brooklyn’s keen birders were still finding a LOT of great birds at that, & other locations to Saturday, Sept. 11th, & there were obviously a good many still on-watch for the very rare Townsend’s.) A female-plumaged Dickcissel was found & photographed at Governors Island (a part of N.Y. County) by N. Souirgi on Saturday, and there were a multitude of other nice migrants seen as well on Governors Island. With so many more Dickcissels seemingly having been around -including some that nested- in the region, it will be interesting to follow their trend for the coming season. (The Sept. 11 Dickcissel ‘may' be only a 2nd-record of the species for Governors; the first was a photographed bird on Oct. 3, 2020 - R. Sorenson, w/ data entered picked up on by B. Cacace. N.B. - Governors Island just “might” be the single top location (or in the top-three) in the county with a potential for new species to be added, including a *potential* for rarer vagrant species. In other sightings of N.Y. County, both species of cuckoo were again seen, including both within Central Park; a small no. of Blue-headed Vireos have turned up, as have just a few (carefully identified &/or photo-documented) Hermit Thrushes, also both of those within Central Park and also elsewhere in the county; at least several Olive-sided Flycatchers were again present and again at least several within Central Park, along with various Empidonax [genus] that include some Yellow-bellied Flycatchers; a putative-*likely* Cliff Swallow was photographed on the fly (A. Cunningham) at Central Park also on Saturday; multiple Red-breasted Nuthatches have been turning up, adding to the few reported previously in the county, and with some Purple Finches (still scarce) also having been showing as well; for sparrows over recent days including on Saturday, there have been Savannah, Lincoln’s, and (more of) Field Sparrows showing up, albeit still in minimal numbers; there also have been at least a few Chipping Sparrows turning up which may represent arriving migrants, rather than only nest-succeses or lingering pairs. Swainson’s Thrush were already much-increased as of Friday, 9/10 but in Saturday’s big turn-outs of birders still more have been found around the county. Also of course showing are Wood Thrush and there are still Veery about, but Swainson’s took over by Friday as the most-numerous Catharus genus] thrush in the county. At least 7 species of diurnal raptors (including multiple Broad-winged Hawks seen and some photographed from multiple locations) plus all 3 regular falcons as well as the 2 vulture species of the region were all found in N.Y. County on Saturday. Numbers of Bald Eagle and Osprey were again somewhat impressive, while some species may be just starting to pick up, on the typical season’s migrations thru the area, and county. (The peak southbound movement of Broad-winged Hawk, in particular, is likely in about the next 2 weeks around the region.) Up to five Yellow-crowned Night-Herons were among interesting singings from Randall’s Island (N.Y. County) on Sept. 11th, a location where as many know, the species had even overwintered. More than a dozen warbler species on Randall’s as well on the 11th are another indication of the great migration that’s been ongoing over a few days and nights. ... Major nocturnal migration was again underway all through at least the eastern portions of North America, on Saturday night going into Sunday, Sept. 12th and that movement includes many birds moving on to south-of-the-U.S. borders, some across seas and oceans, towards and to their winter homes where a lot spend more time (through a year) than in their nesting-grounds - and obviously a vast number of migrants which are departing the vast spaces of Canada to come south as far as they may, which for some will mean all the way into southern South America, with tremendous numbers going to the Caribbean islands (Greater Antilles in particular) and Mexico, as well as all through Central America, astounding journeys undertaken even by “our” native-nesting
[nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - Sept. 11th: 25+ warbler spp., Dickcissel, etc.
On Saturday, 11th of September, at least 25 species of warblers were found in N.Y. County (N.Y.C.) and of those at least 24 species were seen in Central Park alone on the day (with many also occurring in various other parks and greenspaces), although so far, no one had re-found or found any more of Connecticut Warbler[s], which are certainly still very much in the region as well as moving now. More than 120 species of birds were seen in N.Y. County on Saturday, Sept. 11th - that with a very large number of birders out and about! (The Townsend’s Warbler from Brooklyn’s Green-Wood cemetery was apparently not re-found for Saturday, after at least its' 2-day stay there, but it’s very possible it *could* be lingering &/or wandering a bit within even that rather large space, which contains so many trees that could be used by the species. In any event, Brooklyn’s keen birders were still finding a LOT of great birds at that, & other locations to Saturday, Sept. 11th, & there were obviously a good many still on-watch for the very rare Townsend’s.) A female-plumaged Dickcissel was found & photographed at Governors Island (a part of N.Y. County) by N. Souirgi on Saturday, and there were a multitude of other nice migrants seen as well on Governors Island. With so many more Dickcissels seemingly having been around -including some that nested- in the region, it will be interesting to follow their trend for the coming season. (The Sept. 11 Dickcissel ‘may' be only a 2nd-record of the species for Governors; the first was a photographed bird on Oct. 3, 2020 - R. Sorenson, w/ data entered picked up on by B. Cacace. N.B. - Governors Island just “might” be the single top location (or in the top-three) in the county with a potential for new species to be added, including a *potential* for rarer vagrant species. In other sightings of N.Y. County, both species of cuckoo were again seen, including both within Central Park; a small no. of Blue-headed Vireos have turned up, as have just a few (carefully identified &/or photo-documented) Hermit Thrushes, also both of those within Central Park and also elsewhere in the county; at least several Olive-sided Flycatchers were again present and again at least several within Central Park, along with various Empidonax [genus] that include some Yellow-bellied Flycatchers; a putative-*likely* Cliff Swallow was photographed on the fly (A. Cunningham) at Central Park also on Saturday; multiple Red-breasted Nuthatches have been turning up, adding to the few reported previously in the county, and with some Purple Finches (still scarce) also having been showing as well; for sparrows over recent days including on Saturday, there have been Savannah, Lincoln’s, and (more of) Field Sparrows showing up, albeit still in minimal numbers; there also have been at least a few Chipping Sparrows turning up which may represent arriving migrants, rather than only nest-succeses or lingering pairs. Swainson’s Thrush were already much-increased as of Friday, 9/10 but in Saturday’s big turn-outs of birders still more have been found around the county. Also of course showing are Wood Thrush and there are still Veery about, but Swainson’s took over by Friday as the most-numerous Catharus genus] thrush in the county. At least 7 species of diurnal raptors (including multiple Broad-winged Hawks seen and some photographed from multiple locations) plus all 3 regular falcons as well as the 2 vulture species of the region were all found in N.Y. County on Saturday. Numbers of Bald Eagle and Osprey were again somewhat impressive, while some species may be just starting to pick up, on the typical season’s migrations thru the area, and county. (The peak southbound movement of Broad-winged Hawk, in particular, is likely in about the next 2 weeks around the region.) Up to five Yellow-crowned Night-Herons were among interesting singings from Randall’s Island (N.Y. County) on Sept. 11th, a location where as many know, the species had even overwintered. More than a dozen warbler species on Randall’s as well on the 11th are another indication of the great migration that’s been ongoing over a few days and nights. ... Major nocturnal migration was again underway all through at least the eastern portions of North America, on Saturday night going into Sunday, Sept. 12th and that movement includes many birds moving on to south-of-the-U.S. borders, some across seas and oceans, towards and to their winter homes where a lot spend more time (through a year) than in their nesting-grounds - and obviously a vast number of migrants which are departing the vast spaces of Canada to come south as far as they may, which for some will mean all the way into southern South America, with tremendous numbers going to the Caribbean islands (Greater Antilles in particular) and Mexico, as well as all through Central America, astounding journeys undertaken even by “our” native-nesting
