A White Ibis was ongoing at Staten Island [Richmond County] in N.Y. City through the day on Saturday, 8/13 with many observers.
— — — New York County (in N.Y. City), including Manhattan, Randall’s Island, and Governors Island Saturday, Aug. 13th: Nice fresh sightings of the season included a Blue-winged Teal, Common Nighthawk, and a fairly good general arrival and passage of a variety of mostly-expected birds, albeit some on the early side. A minimum of 22 American warbler species were present in the county on Saturday, 8/13. A nice diversity for before the mid-point of August was also revealed by other migrants, some just arriving, and some that have been showing recently, and of course a fairly modest assortment of breeding & visitant birds, some of which are year-round resident species. Among the warbler species, Mourning, Cape May, Magnolia and Black-throated Green were a bit notable, although Mourning at least is about right-on-time for the start of their peak southbound flights locally. At least 20 of the warbler species were seen in Central Park alone on Saturday. Sightings in N.Y. County for August 13th - Canada Goose Wood Duck Blue-winged Teal (thanks to R. Zucker, seen by many at The Pool in Central Park’s n.w. sector) Northern Shoveler Gadwall Mallard Rock Pigeon [feral] Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Killdeer Least Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper ‘peep' sp., perhaps one of the 2 above. Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpipe Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull [American] Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Common Tern Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Randall’s Island) Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey Cooper's Hawk Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Yellow-shafted Flicker American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher - and either Alder *or* Willow Flycatcher (denoted as "Traill's Flycatcher") Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Yellow-throated Vireo (Central Park) Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Common Raven Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Northern Rough-winged Swallow Purple Martin (1) Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Red-breasted Nuthatch (several) White-breasted Nuthatch Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (multiple - on the move again) House Wren Marsh Wren (Randall’s Island, photo’d., thanks to A. Cunningham) Carolina Wren European Starling Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Northern Mockingbird Veery Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush (unusually-early, if not a summering bird, again seen in Central Park) Wood Thrush (multiple, includes those which bred &/or fledged in the county) American Robin Cedar Waxwing House Sparrow House Finch American Goldfinch Chipping Sparrow White-throated Sparrow (all are summering and non-breeding) Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow (several reports from Central Park) Swamp Sparrow Eastern Towhee Bobolink Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Red-winged Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Common Grackle - Ovenbird Worm-eating Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Northern Waterthrush Blue-winged Warbler Brewster's Warbler (hybrid) Black-and-white Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler American Redstart Cape May Warbler Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Prairie Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Canada Warbler Wilson's Warbler - Scarlet Tanager Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Rather likely at least a few additions may be added for the day, with further reports. Peaceful birding to all, Tom Fiore N.Y. City & points-north -- 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/ --
