Update regarding ACCESS to MacGillivrays Warbler in the Bronx, N.Y. City - 12/27 -
It seems that a small number of birders were asked to leave the grounds / driveway / edge of lawn where over 5 days now, a good many had been able to view the MacGillivrays Warbler that has lingered since the bird was discovered last Saturday 12/23, for the 100th annual Bronx-Westchester CBC. Note - this seems NOT to be due to any misbehavior on Wednesday by anyone at all. As of around mid-day, there was at least a guard for the large nursIng care home on Independence Ave. telling birders, photographers, anyone not having business in that care-facility, that they should keep out of the grounds, and off the driveway, which has access to-from Independence Ave. as well as West 231 Street. The warbler had continued to make circuits that occasionally and perhaps rather regularly bring it to s. side of W. 231, to the west of Independence, and that is a public city street, thus walking or standing there ought to be reasonable. Again, no one ought to be walking into, on to any private lawns or clearly private property. This may have happened only very rarely these past 5 days, by any birder. In any event, it was communicated by at least a guard that some residents were not comfortable any longer with so many people coming around, and of course all of us birders with optics, many also with cameras of varying types. The folks at that nursing care facility had been extraordinarily tolerant of our being around, even on the recent holiday, and at most hours of daylight. We can continue to watch from public streets, but it may take yet more patience, and close observance, including keen listening in order to pick out the fairly unique chip notes of the warbler. It varies from being vocal with those chips, to rather quiet at times. Please let any others know if you are aware that they plan to visit this area, that the nursIng home grounds - this includes the lawn with large pink car etc. - are now to be left as private, and we birders should respect that. In all, several hundred observers have come to this area over the days the warbler was known of. Thanks to all who were quiet and considerate in visiting this site. Good birding to all, Tom Fiore manhattan -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
