Monday, cinco de Mayo (5 May), 2014 Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City
A relatively cooperative, slightly high-in-trees but in sun & open branches, CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW has already delighted 100+++ observers through the mid-morning; it was still sitting - hoping that Blue Jays & ass'td. other birds don't harass it further - on a limb of a Sycamore tree, located (& see best from) at the west side of the Maintenance Field in the Ramble's "northeast-most" quadrant - the bird about 2/3 or so up in the tallish Sycamore, set back slightly from lower trees that form the low western canopy of foliage at that location, and looking due west from a bit south of the centerpoint of the "meadow". (The stone buildings with men's & ladies rooms are to the right/north, if one is in this location & looking in the direction one needed to, to see the nightjar. It's been chased & harassed a few times already from the initial sightings. I and many others were still observing it there through 11:30 a.m.; many photos have been taken, even good sketches done by a prominent artist who paints & draws birds. Also present at the same time in some of the smaller & lower flowering trees (crabapple & cherry) has been an often-singing & sometimes very obliging Orange-crowned Warbler... and many other birds in the Ramble area; male Summer Tanager working trees from the lake shore east of Bow Bridge (Ramble side) up to nearly The Point, and "oven" areas - & lots of nice birds also have been seen in the n. end of the park again. At least 20+ species of warblers were found in the Ramble alone this a.m. good luck, Tom Fiore Manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
