An inspiring migration over Thursday night into Friday, which has migrant birds moving out of eastern Canada and all through the easternmost U.S.A. literally from Maine to Florida and the “Keys” and onwards to some Caribbean islands, along with (some) thru the Bahamas and also out at Bermuda. At times thru Thursday night and on into Friday 9/2, radar-signatures indicated some of the strongest of the ’southbound season’ so far for migration...
- - - - - Manhattan, N.Y. City - including Central Park - & many other parks and locations. Thursday, Sept. 1st - A nice new arrival (and as-expected, some departures) of migrants on the first day of September. One of many migrants that showed up (again, not the first, second, nor third of the season) was Olive-sided Flycatcher, while there was also a modest fresh arrival of the Empidonax-genus group of flycatchers, now about as likely as not to include any of the 5 northeastern-breeding species on passage south-again. E. Wood-Pewee also continue in fair numbers, including some that had been lingering. Great Crested Flycatchers are moving, and E. Kingbirds have been in high numbers, the latter on morning (and some into afternoon) flights, with a modest but impressive no. still doing so on Thursday, on their way S.-by-S-W. in the advantageous wind. A Solitary Sandpiper was ongoing on Thursday at “the Pool” in Central Park’s northwest quadrant, this bird seen by now by hundreds of observers on multiple days at that location. Multiple observers found at least a few Common Nighthawks nearer the day’s end and from a few locations around Manhattan Thursday, this includes sightings from Central Park. A minimum of 27 warbler species (and at least 1 hybrid-form, as well) were on Manhattan island on Thursday, and with many many observers in Central Park for essentially all of the daylight hours (and some beyond those hours), all of these species were also found in that one park - collectively. There was a noticeable uptick of Magnolia Warbler for the island (and for Central Park) and some other species increased, or decreased a bit as well. The Palm Warblers (not very many) which occurred included the photographed individuals at the compost-heaps area of Central Park’s north end - where no reports surfaced of any Lark Sparow, although still a slim chance it may be around the area, or still in the county, somewhere. The warblers as seen Thursday (and all found in Central Park, while many also turned up from one end of Manhattan island to the other end) are listed: Ovenbird (multiple) Worm-eating Warbler (multiple) Northern Waterthrush (multiple) Blue-winged Warbler (multiple) Blue-wingedXGolden-winged Warbler (hybrid, in the form someimes called “Brewster’s") Black-and-white Warbler (multiple) Tennessee Warbler (multiple) Nashville Warbler (multiple) Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat (multiple) Hooded Warbler American Redstart (multiple; still fairly numerous) Cape May Warbler (multiple) Northern Parula (multiple) Magnolia Warbler (multiple, and a definite increase) Bay-breasted Warbler (multiple) Blackburnian Warbler (multiple) Yellow Warbler (multiple) Chestnut-sided Warbler (multiple) Blackpoll Warbler (multiple) Black-throated Blue Warbler (multiple) Palm Warbler (“eastern”, or Yellow form - minimum of 6, including at least 4 in Central Park’s north end) Pine Warbler [Myrtle] Yellow-rumped Warbler (multiple) Prairie Warbler (multiple) Black-throated Green Warbler (multiple) Canada Warbler (multiple) Wilson's Warbler (multiple) Some of the other species noted around Manhattan, and many of these also within / seen from Central Park on Thursday 9/1 included: Canada Goose, Mute Swan, Wood Duck, Northern Shoveler, Gadwall, Mallard, American Black Duck, MallardxAmerican Black Duck (hybrid), Mallard/American Black Duck, Pied-billed Grebe, [feral] Rock Pigeon, Mourning Dove, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Black-billed Cuckoo, Common Nighthawk (as noted above also), Chimney Swift, Ruby-throated Hummingbird (fairly good movement thru the day), Killdeer, Least Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper (as noted above, in part), Laughing Gull, Ring-billed Gull [American] Herring Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Common Tern, Double-crested Cormorant (many on the move), Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Green Heron, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Black Vulture (multiple observations, at least two individuals but may easily have been more than 2), Turkey Vulture, Osprey (migrating as well as simply feeding), Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cooper's Hawk, Bald Eagle, Red-tailed Hawk, E. S.-Owl, G.H. Owl, Belted Kingfisher, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Yellow-shafted Flicker, American Kestrel, Merlin, Peregrine Falcon, Olive-sided Flycatcher (as noted in-part, above), Eastern Wood-Pewee, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Acadian Flycatcher, Alder/Willow Flycatcher (a.k.a. Traill’s Flycatcher for this sister-species duo in combined parlance), Least Flycatcher, Empidonax-genus (as species-undetermined), Eastern Phoebe, Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Yellow-throated Vireo, Warbling Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, Blue Jay, American Crow, Fish Crow, Common Raven, Black-capped Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, N. Rough-winged Swallow, Tree Swallow, Bank Swallow, Barn Swallow, Red-breasted Nuthatch (ongoing in double-digit numbers and some likely additionals, seen and heard in at least 8 completely-separate areas of Central Park alone and also present from northern Manhattan to near the southern tip of the island), White-breasted Nuthatch, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, House Wren, Winter Wren (VERY early still, and if poss. should be photo’d on such an early-arrival date), Carolina Wren, European Starling, Gray Catbird, Brown Thrasher, Northern Mockingbird, Veery, Gray-cheeked Thrush (apparently this, and NOT the slightly-similar Bicknell’s - this is a bit early for this species, or for that duo of once-sister-species), Swainson's Thrush, Hermit Thrush (a few, which are even now exceedingly early, although one or more may have been in for-example, Central Park, all through summer as non-breeder[s]), Wood Thrush, American Robin, Cedar Waxwing (many, including some at least wandering), House Sparrow, House Finch, Purple Finch (NOT the first of season, and is still a bit soon to see if this species again shows well for the season[s] ahead here), American Goldfinch, Chipping Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, Eastern Towhee, Bobolink (all fly-throughs), Baltimore Oriole, Red-winged Blackbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, Common Grackle, Scarlet Tanager (multiple, in still-modest no’s.), Northern Cardinal, Rose-breasted Grosbeak (multiple), Indigo Bunting… and likely some additional species for Manhattan, on the day. - - - Not noted all that much just-recently, Riverside Park (Manhattan) had been and is productive at times, although some portions can appear quite low in migrants, in the dry. More rain for all of the broad northeastern and mid-Atlantic region is needed. A few sectors of that park noted are watered and at times, also where puddles have collected, there has been added activity. This in addition to fly-through activity as is typical on morning-flights. - - - - - - Over on Randall’s Island (in N.Y. County), an adult Yellow-crowned Night-Heron was continuing. A single Broad-winged Hawk on August 27th over n. Manhattan was confirmed, from photos and description, in eBird. Modest numbers of that species have been on the move in August, as is typical for their migrations southward. ... Some Monarch butterflies were moving but not in any great numbers, on 9/1 thru Manhattan. 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