Monday, 18 April, 2011 - No longer tracking just how many of these have been found & reported in the state so far, the "latest" of the flurry of YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER[s] has been reported this morning from Clove Lakes Park in the northern part of Staten Island (Richmond County) in N.Y. City, topping the list of six wood-warbler species mentioned altogether there. Clove Lakes Park is on the NW side of Victory Boulevard. The report is from Ed Johnson of Staten Island, as found here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SINaturaList/message/2183
Also, at Prospect Park in Brooklyn (N.Y. City), a Yellow-throated Warbler has again been seen by Prospect birders at the Lullwater this Monday a.m. - this could well be one that Prospect Park has held for some days now, or perhaps a "new" arrival - as there certainly was a fairly good migration movement last night. This morn's initial Prospect Yellow-throated report from Tom Stephenson, via Peter Dorosh's Brooklyn bird-sightings/news blog. (There will certainly be additional migrant sightings of note at Prospect Park & vicinity today.) At Central Park (Manhattan, N.Y. City) at least 11 warbler species have turned up so far this Mon. morn' - and it's certainly possible that a few more will still be found today - I was in very early, and in a large active flock of (primarily) Myrtle [Yellow-rumped] Warblers, found a singing Orange-crowned Warbler, around 7 a.m., which seemed, along with a good many of the other warblers in that flock, including Palm & Pine, to move on away from where first seen around the western edges of the "Tupelo meadow" - this is the fairly large open lawn area that is a bit south of Belevedere Castle & north of the Gill (stream) and does indeed have a large, fenced, Tupelo (Sour Gum) tree in it's midst or more on it's south edge. In addition to these warblers, there are also Northern Parula, Black-and-white (at least several), Black-throated Green (several), Yellow, Northern Waterthrush, Louisiana Waterthrush, & Common Yellowthroat - all but the last (and maybe that as well) found in & around the Ramble area, with seemingly not quite as much diversity or numbers of new migrants in the north end of the park (as of the morning, that is). A breeding- plumaged Common Loon remained on the reservoir this a.m. & was favoring the NE quarter at that time, as it had yesterday. Purple Finches were moving with a fair number seen & heard both in the Ramble, the north woods later on, and in a few other spots in Central - and associating with American Goldfinch in some places. Additional sightings so far this a.m. were Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, and what seemed like modest numbers of migrant sparrows, with a fresh batch of Eastern Towhees, etc. having come in. The swallows which had gathered at the Meer in the park's far NE corner were much reduced in variety or numbers when I checked in late a.m. today but there may be more moving thru at any point. There are sure to be additional sightings from hot-spots around the city, with a number of observers perhaps having a bit of extra time on these holy days for some folks and / or vacation days for some. A quick check of Manhattan's Riverside Park "drip" and vicinity, around 1/2-hour ago, revealed little migrant activity. There were birds around; all that I noticed are fairly common species. 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/ --
