There have been modest migrant-fallout condition in multiple areas in the wider region, including as well as beyond New York City. In some locations, large numbers of migrant birds are occurring, as well as good-to-excellent diversity. As is often so in these fallout situations, any one location might be fairly quiet, even as a site within a short distance might be very active. Some areas not that far from N.Y. City such as Bear Mt. - Harriman State Park in both Orange and Rockland Counties of southeastern NY state have had a larger influx of migrants which include many typical as well as scarcer breeding species, by Saturday May 2.
- - - - - - Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - Saturday, May 2nd - At least 27 species of migratory-American warblers are in, with at least 5 species of Vireos, at least four of the brown-backed Thrush species, and many other migrants, some mentioned below the listing of Saturday’s warbler sightings - just to the noon-hour! - at Central Park. Many species are being found in the multiple, and some species are in very good numbers all around the whole of Central Park - with large numbers of observers, in all areas. The following warbler species are present in Central Park on May 2nd, with at least two warbler species new to the year in New York County and for Central Park and Manhattan, Bay-breasted Warbler, and singing Tennessee Warbler. There may well be additional warbler species that are turned up on a day with improving weather and a lot ofd migrant activity, with new arrivals that came in before and after and during overnight showers of Friday night into early pre-dawn hours of Saturday in the area.. Ovenbird - multiple Worm-eating Warbler - multiple Louisiana Waterthrush - few Northern Waterthrush - multiple Blue-winged Warbler - multiple Brewsters Warbler -hybrid cross of Blue-winged and Golden-winged- Black-and-white Warbler - multiple Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler - multiple Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler - multiple American Redstart - multiple Cape May Warbler - multiple Northern Parula - multiple Magnolia Warbler - multiple Bay-breasted Warbler - multiple Blackburnian Warbler - multiple Northern Yellow Warbler - many Chestnut-sided Warbler - multiple Blackpoll Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler - multiple Palm Warbler - multiple Pine Warbler Yellow-rumped -Myrtle- Warbler - multiple Prairie Warbler - multiple Black-throated Green Warbler - multiple Canada Warbler Wilson's Warbler Also present among the many migrants are Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Scarlet Tanager, Orchard and Baltimore Orioles, Indigo Buntings, sparrows which include Lincolns and White-crowned Sparrows, and many many other migrants,. Spotted Sandpipers are moving thru in the multiple, and some other shorebirds are also passing thru, such as Solitary Sandpiper and both of the Yellowlegs species, and likely also some other shorebirds. . . . . A Pileated Woodpecker was ongoing in the woods at Inwood Hill Park in northern Manhattan, into Saturday, May 2nd. There have been many, many migrant and breeding birds seen in northern Manhattan thru the morning of May 2nd. Good birding, Tom Fiore manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Visit: http://LISTS.cornell.edu for more information Posting Address: [email protected] Archives: The Mail Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html Sightings: Please submit your observations to eBird at http://www.ebird.org --
