Tom thanks for all the updates. This bird really shows the importance of
helping out on a Christmas Bird Count. I am not a Bronx birder but since a
“stakeout location” was added to ebird for it in a mixed commercial/residential
street in Riverdale it seems quite likely that but for the CBC and the great
find by NYS Young birder Julian Batiste and Tom, the Macgillivrays Warbler may
never have been reported or even noticed by anyone. Indeed who knows how long
it lingered before the CBC? I believe there still remain a few counts in the
metropolitan area (Putnam County I know is 1/2/2024) and maybe that extra set
of eyes will spot an unexpected warbler or even a red flanked bluetail - well
not likely on the latter.
So if you didn’t do a count this year please do one (or more) next year.
L. Trachtenberg
Ossining.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Dec 28, 2023, at 12:11 PM, Tom Fiore wrote:
> The MacGillivrays Warbler in Riverdale, part of western Bronx County in N.Y.
> City, was heard chipping and then seen, at the corner of weedy lot along West
> 231 St, just west of Independence Ave., before 9 am with some drizzles still
> falling at that hour. Thanks to L. Herzog for this reliable update. This is
> now the 6th known day of occurrence in this area. Please do not enter the
> driveways or grounds of the adjacent large nursing home or its lawns and of
> course, be courteous to all area residents or workers.
> Parking is probably / usually available up Independence Ave. a block or more
> north, if none is seen along narrow 231 St, and/or along W. 232 St, east of
> Independence where that street is much wider.
>
> Use extra care as several city bus routes are re-routed onto very narrow
> parts of some local streets until some roadwork nearby allows their
> resumption of usual bus routing.
>
> There are still some inquiries about this warbler coming thru from places
> many hours drive out of NY City.
>
> Good birding to all,
>
> Tom Fiore
> manhattan
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