Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - Friday, Sept. 16th: A Sora was found and observed by many, at “the Pool” in the park’s n-w sector; also seen a bit north earlier was a Red-headed Woodpecker. Also at the “Pool”, a Marsh Wren (first spotted & photo’d. on 9/15 by T. Zahner) was again present, as were a wide variety of other migrant species. In the nearby “Loch”, the very long-lingering G.H. Owl had attention called to it by numbers of American Crows, which some had counted into the low dozens. [note, there’s been a bit of Sora ‘flight' on the day, w/ some others also arriving, beyond those already around, in N.Y. City.]
Overall, another strong push of migrants overnight into Friday, with more sightings of Lincoln’s Sparrows (and all around the county, as well), and although of course expected & already noted, the fresh movements of such spp. as Yellow-shafted Flickers, and still more of Black-throated Green Warblers were all additional indicators for a sustained several days of good migration. Some more Purple Finches have also shown, probably new arrivals, although may have been coming in over these last several days, with good general migration of so many species. At least 24 spp. of warblers were being seen, including in Central Park alone, with good variety around N.Y. County as well. Thanks to many for on-site and on-line reports-alerts. Peaceful birding to all, 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/ --
