I received a report of 2 American White Pelicans seen late Monday
morning from a birder at the West Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife
Refuge, in Queens County - the birds said to have flown from the
north at fairly low elevation and then gone out of the observer's
sight-line, with apparently no other birders having noted the 2 huge
birds - the observation from near Bench 12 on the West Pond trail, at
about 11:30 a.m. on Mon., 31 Aug. Of interest is also a report from
Connecticut along Long Island Sound's shore of an American White
Pelican, that report for a Sunday sighting, 30 August.
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Monday, 31 August, 2009 - Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City
A good general flight of land birds with flycatchers and warblers in
number and variety. Incidentally the flight was noted from many
parts of the region, including some other of N.Y. City's well-birded
larger public parks. In Central, activity was found in the Ramble &
the north end areas, and the birds were quite active throughout the
day to as late as 7 p.m. A number of birders were out and about,
mainly from the reservoir southwards.
Among the sightings from Central:
Great Egret (multiple fly-overs)
Snowy Egret (multiple fly-overs)
Green Heron (multiple)
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture (1)
Wood Duck (3)
Northern Shoveler (2)
Green-winged Teal
Osprey (4, fly-overs)
Bald Eagle (fly-over)
Cooper's Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk (2, fly-overs)
American Kestrel (perhaps "local")
Spotted Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Black-billed Cuckoo (north woods)
Common Nighthawk (near sunset)
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (5+)
Belted Kingfisher
Olive-sided Flycatcher (Great Hill)
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
additional Empidonax sp.
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird (multiple)
Yellow-throated Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo (n. end)
Red-eyed Vireo
Tree Swallow (fly-overs)
Barn Swallow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Veery
Wood Thrush
Cedar Waxwing
Blue-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Prairie Warbler (several)
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Mourning Warbler (n. end)
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
Baltimore Oriole (multiple)
Good (Sept.) birding to all,
Tom Fiore,
Manhattan
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