Sunday, first of May 2016
At the reservoir of Central Park (Manhattan, N.Y. City) a breeding-plumaged Horned Grebe remains, present since at least Friday (and belated thanks to Central Park birder Junko Suzuki for first alerting those with a Manhattan bird-alert twitter-feed, as well as to Debbie Becker for a later report, Friday) - this Sunday morning, just as yesterday 4/30, the grebe was present overnight at first light, & I again observed & photo'd nicely, with better results this rainy morning as the grebe approached the SE portion of the reservoir within 8 feet of the bank. An uncommon species for Central, although in the past year, there have been a few sightings and also in recent years, the species has occurred in the colder months, even more rarely in spring.
A fairly good selection of other migrant species are present in Central Park again. Among them, & getting only modestly "late", were Pine Warbler (female), & Louisiana Waterthrush (singing & seen) - one of the latter sharing the stream west of Balcony Bridge (near W. 77 St.) for a while with a more-common-now Northern Waterthrush. I waited a bit to see if a photo-op on both waterthrush spp. together might happen, but the Northern seemed a bit aggressive towards the Louisiana.
At the reservoir of Central Park (Manhattan, N.Y. City) a breeding-plumaged Horned Grebe remains, present since at least Friday (and belated thanks to Central Park birder Junko Suzuki for first alerting those with a Manhattan bird-alert twitter-feed, as well as to Debbie Becker for a later report, Friday) - this Sunday morning, just as yesterday 4/30, the grebe was present overnight at first light, & I again observed & photo'd nicely, with better results this rainy morning as the grebe approached the SE portion of the reservoir within 8 feet of the bank. An uncommon species for Central, although in the past year, there have been a few sightings and also in recent years, the species has occurred in the colder months, even more rarely in spring.
A fairly good selection of other migrant species are present in Central Park again. Among them, & getting only modestly "late", were Pine Warbler (female), & Louisiana Waterthrush (singing & seen) - one of the latter sharing the stream west of Balcony Bridge (near W. 77 St.) for a while with a more-common-now Northern Waterthrush. I waited a bit to see if a photo-op on both waterthrush spp. together might happen, but the Northern seemed a bit aggressive towards the Louisiana.
good May birding in the (needed here) rains,
Tom Fiore
Manhattan
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