Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City Thursday-Friday, 1 & 2 April, 2010
On Thursday the park did not seem to be that busy with new migrants yet there was at least one, which lingered to Friday a.m., a Louisiana Waterthrush seen in & around the Gill (small stream in the Ramble) in the first hours of daylight - & not heard calling or singing at those hours. Friday (and the overnight from Thursday) brought a fairly good mix of migrants including as many as a half-dozen Pine Warblers (in multiple locations) as well as a single Palm Warbler (that I could find), on the Sheep Meadow's east edge. Other migrants included a number of N. [Yellow-shafted] Flickers, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, E. Phoebes, Golden-crowned (mainly) and some Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Brown Creepers, Winter Wrens (few), Hermit Thrush, Fox Sparrow and some other species. It was not a "flood" of birds but far more than had been observed until this. (There may have been a number of other birds seen by others that aren't mentioned here.) Good birding, Tom Fiore, Manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
