No luck for me anyway w Mourning between 745 and 815. Quite windy so not very birdy in the London Planes although there are oodles of common yellowthroats, ovenbirds, catbirds and white throats skulking. Caretaker found and buried this morning a dead magnolia warbler (had pic).
Same no luck yesterday at lunch hour in Madison Sq. Park w Prothonotary and KY (but did have the female hooded and several other warblers). I just got a very reliable report of a breeding cattle egret ball field Croton Point this a.m. L. Trachtenberg Ossining. Sent from my iPhone On May 18, 2018, at 7:15 AM, Jonathan Perez <jonathan.ape...@gmail.com<mailto:jonathan.ape...@gmail.com>> wrote: Mourning warbler still being seen this morning at the SW corner of Bryant Park by a few birders - near the colored chairs and the “southwest porch coffee cabin.” Please excuse my brevity. Sent from my iPhone On May 15, 2018, at 2:25 PM, gabriel willow <gabrielwil...@yahoo.com<mailto:gabrielwil...@yahoo.com>> wrote: I led a bird walk in The Battery (formerly known as Battery Park), the southernmost point in Manhattan, this morning. I think this park has a ton of potential, even more so than other pocket parks in NYC: it's fairly large (at 25 acres, much larger than Bryant, Madison Square, or Washington Square Park) and even better, has an excellent mix of mature native trees, mostly the oaks that are so beloved by migrating warblers. It also has extensive lawns that are often fenced off to the public and to dogs, and it overlooks the harbor, providing sea-watching opportunities and possible storm-blown vagrants. For anyone who works in lower Manhattan, it could be a really productive patch. This morning was my personal best day in the park out of maybe a dozen birding visits total: 42 species in about three hours, which would be a respectable morning in Central Park to say nothing of the Battery! Six of these were new for the park according to eBird. The oaks were fairly crawling with warblers of a dozen species, and there were 6-8 Scarlet Tanagers fly-catching around the park (there was some sort of small brown flying ant hatch-out happening). Additional highlights included: Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (a very cooperative individual perching low in a Willow Oak near the Battery Tunnel air exchange tower vent at the SW corner of the park) Yellow-throated Vireo Blackburnian Warbler (several) Bay-breasted Warbler (one male) Canada Warbler (2 or 3) Wilson's Warbler (2) Here's the whole list: Canada Goose Mallard Double-crested Cormorant Great Black-backed Gull Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax sp. (likely Least) Eastern Kingbird Yellow-throated Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay Fish Crow Veery Swainson's Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird European Starling Cedar Waxwing Ovenbird Black-and-white Warbler Common Yellowthroat American Redstart Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Canada Warbler Wilson's Warbler Chipping Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Scarlet Tanager Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Baltimore Oriole Common Grackle House Sparrow Good late spring migration! Gabriel Willow NYC Audubon -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> ABA<http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> ABA<http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- 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/ --