Presumably many New York birders are aware of the sight-report of a Frigatebird in central Connecticut - some details (& thoughts) are on the CT-Birds list-serve - the sighting was reported for this afternoon, 9/29. (Keep a camera of some sort handy!)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tuesday thru Thursday, 27 to 29 September, 2016 Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - At least 20 species of warblers (one or two others may have been reported) were present at the start of these 3 days in Central Park, with much-diminished numbers & variety by Thursday - in almost all of the migrants. The most common warbler (by far) continued to be Palm, & these could be seen in many odd corners of the park in addition to the more-birded areas. By Thursday, it was tough to come up with more than 8 or 9 warbler species, but there may well be at least one more 'push' in the coming week that brings a variety of these thru & just possibly, some later-moving species still in good numbers. There is no doubt though that tremendous nocturnal migrations took place in recent days & much of that movement carried birds away, & far away from the southern points in NY. Many other species besides warblers were moving this week, and many also flew over, on their way to the Gulf (of Mexico) region &/or beyond. Perhaps only waterfowl showed a bit of an uptick in numbers, this week in Central Park. There were some further reports, as well as 'rumors of reports' (by word-of-mouth, that is) of uncommon sparrow species including Clay-colored, which some observers were able to discern near the southwest part of the lake & vicinity. Other, much more regularly-seen sparrow species turned up in slightly increased numbers and then (mostly) diminished again as the weather shifted a bit into its current pattern. Warblers (especially from Tuesday) - Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Myrtle [ex- Yellow-rumped] Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler and the rest of the birds from 3 days into Thursday: Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret (last noticed on Tuesday) Snowy Egret (last noticed Tuesday) Green Heron (last noticed Tuesday) Black-crowned Night-Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Wood Duck Gadwall (many) American Black Duck Mallard Northern Shoveler (increased numbers) Northern Pintail (female, reservoir) Green-winged Teal (continuing, Meer) Hooded Merganser (2, reservoir) Ruddy Duck (increased numbers) Osprey (flyover) Bald Eagle (flyover) Northern Harrier (flyover) Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk (flyover) Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Merlin (flyover) Peregrine Falcon (flyover) Solitary Sandpiper (Tues.) Spotted Sandpiper Laughing Gull (ongoing few at reservoir, with the other gulls) Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Chimney Swift (scarcer now) Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (increasing) Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Yellow-shafted Flicker (fairly common) Eastern Wood-Pewee (scarce now) Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher (to Tuesday) Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo (few now) Red-eyed Vireo (rather few) Blue Jay (many - migrating diurnally) American Crow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch (in numbers) White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Marsh Wren (Tuesday) Golden-crowned Kinglet (few) Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Tuesday) Gray-cheeked Thrush (to Wed.- & potentially, its scarcer cousin) Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush (1st genuine of the species I've found since spring) Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow (as seen by some others, near the lake) Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow (at least several) Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow (increasing) White-crowned Sparrow (several) Dark-eyed Junco (increasing) Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole (few) House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." - Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), U.S. wildlife biologist, conservationist, professor, author, best known for his book "A Sand County Almanac" (1949), which has sold more than two million copies. good birding, 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/ --
