Central Park, Manhattan , N.Y. City Wednesday, 15 September, 2010 - Two Opororornis [genus] warbler species were reported from the Ramble Wednesday, each seen by some of Starr Saphir's group, led by Starr, both sightings coming roughly between 10 & 11 a.m. in the area a bit north of the Azalea Pond. The Connecticut Warbler, reportedly a 1st- year, was at the head of the Gill (where it begins) & was skulking & not seen well by all present, & perhaps not again. A Mourning Warbler, also reported as a first-year, was near the Tupelo tree, in that part of the Ramble named after it, and was said to have been just a bit less shy than the rarer Connecticut in the same general vicinity. A good variety of other warblers were collectively reported from Central Park including at least these 20 additional species:
Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Myrtle [Yellow-rumped] Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Only a few of the above were possible 'singletons', as were the reports for the 2 members of Oporornis genus as noted. Many other migrants were seen in the multiple, some in multitudes. A good hawk flight was observed near-coastally and it's quite possible that many raptors including a lot of Broad-winged Hawks moved past Manhattan and/or parts of N.Y. City on Wed. (At some watches around the region, the day's tally for Broad-winged Hawks topped the 4-digits level [ie: thousands of them seen in one day's watch for the first time this fall in the northeast.]) A few devotees of the craft of hawk- watching kept productive vigil from Central Park and were nicely rewarded with some modest kettles of Broad-winged Hawks & more, mainly after noon. The largest push of Broad-winged Hawks for this year in the SE portion of the state and thru most of the larger region for the 'fall' is likely within the next 7 days or so given coming weather. - - - - A Wood Stork was seen heading south from the Cape May, New Jersey hawk- watch area - that bird was then spotted a bit later moving south past the Cape Henlopen, Delaware hawk-watch site, on Wednesday. It was said to have taken about 20 minutes to make the north-south crossing of Delaware Bay that a.m. (We might wonder how far north it was coming from!) 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/ --
