As I had already posted to this list, in a *report appearing on June 24th* of this year, and noted therein as follows: >>>> - - - - New York County (in N.Y. City), including Manhattan, Randall’s Island, and Governors Island summertime sightings - esp. Tues. 6/21 to Thursday, 6/23 - Some highlights include Black Skimmer, Cliff Swallow (nesting), & (uncommon so late) Red-breasted Nuthatch, plus many other species either nesting, visiting, or still-lingering. <<<< plus the following in the body of the same report to this list made June 24th - >>>> Uncommon siighting so deep into the year (indeed, on summer-solstice day), a Red-breasted Nuthatch was photographed at Central Park on Tuesday, **JUNE 21** (**photo** is in the Macaulay Library archive); the one definitely-breeding nuthatch species of that park & elsewhere in the county is White-breasted. It was a very strong spring (& last winter to some extent) for Red-breasteds and this presumably is a lingerer, though rather unusually late for this area, however there were other sightings (& in other locations) in the county this month. <<<< — I’ll EMPHASIZE that, in case needed - the Red-breasted Nuthatch from Central Park seen June 21st of this year has its’ photograph archived in the Macaulay Library - to be clear-as-a-bell, that bird was in an eBird report, and it is confirmed.
Since that bird was noted on THAT exact date, there have been slightly more than -Twenty- sightings of Red-breasted Nuthatch in Central Park (alone), some involving the same singleton, and more that were not (including up to 7 on one day), which will be further-detailed in a few days time, as there have also been others in the county, esp. on one recent day. and - it’s been clear for the past week+ that Red-breasted Nuthatches are ‘irrupting' again - and have started to increase - the phenomenon is not limited to N.Y. County or N.Y. City. see also the following extracted from my report to this list on June 29th (as written-up late-night of June 28th) - which included: >>>>>> Although this is still a ‘developing story’ in the greater Northeast, there are increasing reports of, at least - Red-breasted Nuthatches showing this time of the year where they are not thought to be breeding (and including -lately- in N.Y. County), with some sense that this could predict an influx of other irruptive-breeding and flock-feeding wanderer-species - there are also reports in some northeast & mid-Atlantic locations of unusual-for-site[s], and some uncommonly-high numbers, of at least Red Crossbill, including some not too far out from N.Y. City; and also some increases in sightings of Pine Siskins that include signs of flocking-up and some wandering already. See below for some sightings of Red-breasted Nuthatches in N.Y. County, in the past week or less. There also were 2 Purple Finches at Inwood on Sat., 6/25 which is possibly almost-unprecedented at such a late date; that species was running-late well into May with a few still going in early June. No signs that the 2 at Inwood show any pairing, however. —and— >>>>>> Red-breasted Nuthatch - (minimum of FOUR individuals just on Sunday, June 26th - Union Square Park, City Hall Park, and 2 for Central Park, at Ramble area and Pinetum area same-time) <<< Those (above) reports in the >> brackets << are mine, with multiple additional sightings of Red-breasted Nuthatches, by more than 25 individual birders independently-birding and/or with non-profit guided walks. A Happy and Safe Fourth to all, Tom Fiore manhattan -- 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/ --
