Saturday, 14 May, 2011 Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City
The weather didn't help, but mainly there was seemingly more exodus than influx overnight Friday into Saturday. This was evident in the reductions in numbers of such very common migrants as Red-eyed Vireo & Gray Catbird, just to name two examples - and yes, both species breed in Central Park (Red-eyed much less commonly) but the numbers of birds passing through was far less on Saturday than in preceding days. One species for which there seemed to be a perceptible uptick in numbers was Swainson's Thrush, this most evident in parts of the park with relatively less foot (human & canine) traffic. Very dedicated searching, in multiple areas was capable of turning up as many as 20 (or more) warbler species, but not easily... - - - - Singing Mourning Warblers were reported from at least 2 separate locations on Staten Island on Friday, 5/13; that in addition to the one reported singing in Brookyn's Prospect Park that same day. Also noted for Prospect Park, but on Saturday, 5/14: Yellow-breasted Chat. It's quite impressive seeing reports from the north, how many species and numbers of some of those migrants have found their ways to points north, some even well into Canada. At least some of those migrants are ones that have barely been reported in the southeast parts of NY, so far. Locations well west of the Atlantic have been experiencing some impressive migration just recently. Good birding, Tom Fiore Manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
