Sunday, 30th April, 2017 - Manhattan - mainly Central Park - N.Y. City Some highlights already known, reported, & (for one in particular) photographed by many - Least Bittern (in the Ramble all day by the Gill - now that’s a bird to celebrate the re-opening of that area to the public… and this apparently the first since May 1989, when the late, great Starr Saphir leading a bird-walk came across one in the same section of the same park), Olive-sided Flycatcher (found near the w. edge of the Ramble, may have moved on), Kentucky Warbler (at the Loch, at least several obs. & thanks to Terry Collins for the initial find), Blue Grosbeak (male, seen at n. end of Strawberry Fields, but trending north, apparently not re-found today; thanks to Julian Hough for that report).
Interesting birds were seen in other Manhattan areas, but it’s hard to beat those species seen in Central this day. A very wide variety of other migrants, putting on a show for the last day of April. No lengthy annotated list tonight, and (from me) none for most of May… headed off to seek some birds in another place, & hope to catch up with a Mourning Warbler perhaps on my return to NY. Good month of May birding! - "Kookaburra sits on a rusty nail gets a boo-boo in his tail cry, kookaburra! cry, kookaburra! Oh how life can be…" lyrics - The Kookaburra song, by Marion Sinclair. Tom Fiore manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
