Sunday, 25 September, 2011 - Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City
Add at least one more Warbler species to the good variety for Sunday's
sightings, a Cape May noted by J. Suzuki around the reservoir outer
path, not far from the W. 90 Street park entrance, bringing a total
tally to at least 24 wood-warbler species seen collectively in the
park, that active day.
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Monday, 26 September - there was additional flight - new arrivals, and
also some apparent departure and dispersal from the bigger apparent
(observed) flight (from Sat. overnight to) Sunday. Cuckoos were still
evident with a number of sightings noted, by far more seen being
Yellow-billed than Black-billed. A further reinforcement of Indigo
Buntings, and also at least some further movement of flycatchers with
Eastern Phoebe trying (but not yet succeeding) to out-number Eastern
Wood-Pewees. A few Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers are a small sign of the
season to come, even if it is already here on our calendars.
A fairly good diurnal movement of Blue Jay continued Monday - and a
very good ongoing Cedar Waxwing movement, easily nearing the 4-digit
numbers overall, many as flyover flocks through much of the day.
Also coming along are sparrows with the more interesting reports
actually seeming to be from the city's southernmost borough (Richmond
County) - Vesper and Clay-colored both reported there, Monday. These
birds were at Snug Harbor, and Clove Lakes Park respectively and they,
along with Connecticut Warbler at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, are
located in the northern parts of the island. (Richmond County =
Staten Island, NYC). the SINaturaList had the reports, that's in the
big Yahoo-group bird-list "family".
The very mild, summer-like local weather certainly belies the big
movement of many neotropical wintering species. It will be interesting
to see just what is reported after any good "old-fashioned" cold front
clears the NYC - Long Island region (Region 10, in the "Kingbird"
designation) which appears to be in the works for the weekend, if not
just before...
Good birding,
Tom Fiore,
Manhattan
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