Tuesday, 9 October 2012 - >From a couple of vantage points in Manhattan (Central Park and stops along the >Hudson river from the 100's downtown to lower Manhattan) there was a somewhat >unsteady migration movement much of the day even with spotty light drizzles >passing and a very low cloud deck - still moving overhead thru about the whole >day were Y.-s. Flickers and American Robins in modest numbers, plus Cedar >Waxwings in high-hundtrds numbers (a few flocks up to 100++) and also Blue >Jays & blackbirds (seeming to be mainly C. Grackles with smaller numbers of >Red-winged BB's), while Yellow-rumped [Myrtle] Warblers were in most any >fair-size or larger area of lawn, semi-open areas, and moving along the >river-edge as well, with more modest numbers of Palm (both "western" & >"yellow" types) Warbler on less-busy lawns and fields plus the scattered few >in odd little spots, and White-throated Sparrows, plus again the relatively >fewer odd (outside of Central or Riverside Parks) Chipping, Swamp, and even a >few White-crowned (Hudson river greenway plantings) Sparrows as well. There >seemed to be even more of a turnover from neotropical-wintering species >towards the shorter-distance migrants and there were Dark-eyed Juncos in some >spots downtown, in keeping with that... of finches, there actually seemed to >be a decent Amer. Goldfinch movement late in the day... I came up with a >couple of Purple Finch in Central (& no siskins, but was not really searching >for them today). In sheer numbers of birds on the move during the day, very >strong movement... but not anything like fallout in any particular place I >visited... (and did not get over to Bryant Park, which can act as a >mini-barometer in that it has a more regular coverage than some of the other >small mid-Manhattan green-spaces...) A fair number of raptors were also >moving even in the dank weather but with a good NE tailwind providing good >assist in their migrations. - - - - Relatively speaking, the east coast is "awash" in N.Wheatears just lately... typical timing for that long-long distance passerine.
good October 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/ --
