Mourning warbler still being seen this morning at the SW corner of Bryant Park by a few birders - near the colored chairs and the “southwest porch coffee cabin.”
Please excuse my brevity. Sent from my iPhone > On May 15, 2018, at 2:25 PM, gabriel willow <gabrielwil...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I led a bird walk in The Battery (formerly known as Battery Park), the > southernmost point in Manhattan, this morning. I think this park has a ton of > potential, even more so than other pocket parks in NYC: it's fairly large (at > 25 acres, much larger than Bryant, Madison Square, or Washington Square Park) > and even better, has an excellent mix of mature native trees, mostly the oaks > that are so beloved by migrating warblers. It also has extensive lawns that > are often fenced off to the public and to dogs, and it overlooks the harbor, > providing sea-watching opportunities and possible storm-blown vagrants. For > anyone who works in lower Manhattan, it could be a really productive patch. > > This morning was my personal best day in the park out of maybe a dozen > birding visits total: 42 species in about three hours, which would be a > respectable morning in Central Park to say nothing of the Battery! Six of > these were new for the park according to eBird. The oaks were fairly crawling > with warblers of a dozen species, and there were 6-8 Scarlet Tanagers > fly-catching around the park (there was some sort of small brown flying ant > hatch-out happening). > > Additional highlights included: > > Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (a very cooperative individual perching low in a > Willow Oak near the Battery Tunnel air exchange tower vent at the SW corner > of the park) > Yellow-throated Vireo > Blackburnian Warbler (several) > Bay-breasted Warbler (one male) > Canada Warbler (2 or 3) > Wilson's Warbler (2) > > Here's the whole list: > > Canada Goose > Mallard > Double-crested Cormorant > Great Black-backed Gull > Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) > Red-bellied Woodpecker > Downy Woodpecker > Yellow-bellied Flycatcher > Empidonax sp. (likely Least) > Eastern Kingbird > Yellow-throated Vireo > Red-eyed Vireo > Blue Jay > Fish Crow > Veery > Swainson's Thrush > American Robin > Gray Catbird > Northern Mockingbird > European Starling > Cedar Waxwing > Ovenbird > Black-and-white Warbler > Common Yellowthroat > American Redstart > Northern Parula > Magnolia Warbler > Bay-breasted Warbler > Blackburnian Warbler > Blackpoll Warbler > Black-throated Blue Warbler > Canada Warbler > Wilson's Warbler > Chipping Sparrow > White-throated Sparrow > Swamp Sparrow > Scarlet Tanager > Northern Cardinal > Rose-breasted Grosbeak > Indigo Bunting > Baltimore Oriole > Common Grackle > House Sparrow > > Good late spring migration! > > Gabriel Willow > NYC Audubon > > -- > NYSbirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > ABA > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
