Many birders all around the country have taken note (& some have seen) the
remarkable influx northwards of Brown Booby - in this year so far, this species
has shown up in waters of, or offshore from - North Carolina, New Jersey, New
York, Maine, and the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, among
others. Brown Booby has also been recorded this year at inland sites in
Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, & Alabama, & perhaps elsewhere inland. Worth keeping
an eye out just about anywhere for this and other unexpected birds.
At least 2 Marbled Godwits have been found at Plumb Beach, in Brooklyn (Kings
County), N.Y. City as of Friday, 8/9; these were photographed & were placed in
eBird.
A Swallow-tailed Kite was seen at the Braddock Bay ‘fall’ hawk-watch, Monroe
County, NY by David Tetlow, on 6th August; some others of this species have
been seen & photographed well north of their typical or expected range in the
past 10+ days. Always worth having “an eye to the sky” for any such finds...
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More migrants have been coming through at Manhattan & N.Y. County; a further &
more detailed summary will be offered in coming days.
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Manhattan (& New York County), N.Y. City - Friday, 9th of August, 2019 -
A highlight of the season so far for New York County was the discovery of a
White-rumped Sandpiper, found Friday, Aug. 9th by Nadir Sourgi, photographed &
also seen by others on the day, at “Muscota marsh" & the Spuyten Duyvil creek
area, off West 218th Street, the northern end of Manhattan island, west of
Broadway. This area has been producing nice numbers of some of the more typical
& expected migrant waders (as called by most birders around the globe; known to
Americans as ‘shorebirds’) - and the find of a White-rumped for Manhattan is
particularly notable.
Also a very nice find on Thursday, Aug. 8th, at the Swindler Cove / Sherman
Creek site, which has mudflats at appropriate times as well, of a Semiplamated
Plover, photograped by Tom Gray at that location, & also a generally very
uncommon find for Manhattan island or its immediately adjacent estuary-sites.
These areas are also in northern Manahttan, east of the eastern end of Dyckman
Street.
In warblers, & at Central Park in Manhattan, a female-plumaged Hooded Warbler
was reported by Tod Winston on Friday Aug. 9th, & also seen by others at the
park’s west side; this among a modest fresh arrival with many more of various
warblers & other ‘land’ birds coming along, some now - and many more soon
enroute, southbound. (Note, among the many species that can be & are moving
diurnally, esp. if watched & listened-for in morning flight, are various
flycatchers, esp. & increasingly Eastern Kingbirds, as well as members of the
Icteridae, blackbirds & related species, such as Bobolinks, & Orioles. And
there are many other species that can be found moving in part during daylight
hours, the more so as August continues along.)
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In the past week since Sunday, at least the following warblers, 15 or more
species with the above-noted Hooded, were seen (& none of those listed below
are first-of-fall sightings; additionally none are at all unexpected now within
the 2nd week of this month.) Six or more of these species have been seen in
numbers, and a few have been fairly numerous on a county-wide basis.
Blue-winged Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Canada Warbler
Additional species include the following seen in New York County in this past
week since the first Sunday of the month.
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Black Vulture (seen from Inwood Hill Park, & also from other northern Manhattan
lookouts to the Hudson river & vicinity)
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Black Duck
Mallard
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
American Woodcock (one report)
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
[American] Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Common Tern
['feral'] Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
MONK Parakeet (photographed, at least several observers, on Governors Island,
New York County, on 8/8)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Eastern Screech-owl (resident)
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Empidonx [genus] Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Yellow-throated Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
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