[Summer Tanager was still present in the Ramble, Mon., 19th] Tuesday, 20 May, 2014 - Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City
This was an odd day in some sense of the migration observed here... the activity level in the first 4-5 hours of the clear & sunny morning was excellent, then it seemed to have "crashed" to an extreme degree & also was not seen to pick up greatly at later hours. Did a lot of migrants find such good feeding early that they could afford to rest as much as seemed by around mid-day? To me, at least, this felt like one of the 3 or 4 heavier migration days of this month, with variety fairly good for this date, & numbers of some species excellent. A few others I spoke with gave a similar assessment, while for some it was just average-typical-normal... Common Loon (fly-over) Pied-billed Grebe (very late for here, at reservoir for past 4 days) Double-crested Cormorant Great Egret Snowy Egret (fly-over) Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (reported) Canada Goose [Atlantic] Brant (fly-overs) Wood Duck Gadwall Northern Shoveler (2 remain, quite late) Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Red-headed Woodpecker (2 or more locations) Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Yellow-shafted Flicker Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Empidonax [genus] Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet (2, a bit late) Gray-cheeked Thrush (seen singing by others) Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird (many) Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler [Myrtle] Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler (multiple locations) Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Summer Tanager (at least 2) Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow Good birding, Tom Fiore Manhatta -- 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/ --
