New York County -in N.Y. City- including 4 main islands all within the county
- Randalls featured in this report, as well as Manhattan, Governors, and
Roosevelt Islands, along with adjacent waters and skies above these -
Sunday -Moms Day- May 10th -
Some excellent sightings from a very active Randalls Island for freshly arrived
plus some lingering birds, which included a bright Prothonotary Warbler, first
seen by two-amigos of the regular group who have covered Randalls Island in all
seasons, and seen later, with some additional pix made, by more observers and
photographers. Also seen by the early-arrivers to Randalls, a photographed
Clay-colored Sparrow, and in total by all later observers combined, at least 90
species of birds on the island for the day… thanks to D. Aronov and A.
Cunningham for their many finds at Randalls, as well as to others who came out
to view and photo birds there.
All of the county experienced good migrant arrival, and all four of the main
islands saw some fresh arrivals, for two other islands, including probable
new-to-the-year species per island, and for Manhattan, at least a nice increase
of a variety of migrant species which had been seen there in recent days or
longer. Warbler diversity was still quite good over the county, and many sites
had up to fifteen to twenty-plus species of warblers within each site.
Roosevelt Island with a small contingent of observers had nice additions to
the known 2026 birds for that island, more added this May 10th. Governors
Island with somewhat more birder-attention had fine migration for the day as
well. In Manhattan, perhaps still lacking the Prothonotary but, at least 27
species of warblers were found, collectively by many hundreds of observers and
photographers. There was a bit of movement also seen from boats in NY harbor
and vicinity on this Mothers Day, which at times were transiting in, or in-view
of and from, N.Y. County waters and airspace. Thanks to all for so many
sightings, alerts, and reports plus photos that, for a time, some reporting
systems were close to maxing. A further report with far more of the species on
this fine birding-day Mothers Day will be given, at some point.
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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