Central Park, and some sightings elsewhere in New York County, which includes Manhattan and several other adjacent islands, all within N.Y. City -
At Randalls Island, decreased numbers of shorebirds into Thursday 9/28 included some lingering Pectoral Sandpipers, up to six up to Wed. mid-day as well as a few Semipalmated Plovers, possibly down to a single by Wed. there; those shorebird spp. may have moved-on by now. Fair to good numbers of many more types of migrant species were also still being seen there on Wed. and Thursday and along with 15 or more species of warblers there were at least 6 spp. of American-native sparrow plus Slate-colored Juncos. >From Governors Island, a number of Forsters Terns were lingering to at least >Thursday, 9/28, and over the 2 days of Wed. and Thursday, at least 16 spp. of >warblers were noted there. Also still showing there were Bobolink, and a >multitude of other migrants. At least 1 lingering Common Tern, a species that >breeds on Governors, was noted from that island to Thursday. At Central Park on Manhattan island, a recent Orange-crowned Warbler is confirmed with multiple close-up photos, via eBird archives, and thus the Macaulay Library. At least 22 species of American warblers were found just in Central Park on Thursday-alone, for all of the park and by many observers thru the day there. In some of the many other parks around Manhattan, there also were a fair to good mix of warblers and other migrants seen. Diversity of migrant spp. was a little higher overall on Wed., 9/27. Among the sparrows have been some White-crowned Sparrows, at Central Park and elsewhere in the county, over recent days including to Thursday. Still passing thru, and seen at Central Park as well as other sites in Manhattan, Common Nighthawks in modest numbers were noted by multiple observers to Thursday 9/28, as well as sightings on Wed. There were almost 100 species of birds found in Central Park alone on the 2 days, Wed. and Thursday, including a small number of migrants running at least slightly-late by most-expected date records. Thanks to many not-for-profit bird-walk leaders, and also many independent birders and photographers, for so many recent sightings and their subsequent reports. Good birding to all - better sunnier days coming, 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/ --
