[nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC Sat., 9/26 - (at least) 3 Connecticut Warblers! (+ other notes)

[Thomas Fiore]

Saturday, 26 September - Manhattan, N.Y. City

Hearty congratulations to several of the very latest of finders of Connecticut 
Warbler for Manhattan (N.Y. County, in N.Y. City) - with two individual birds 
(at least) for the morning being found in 2 very widely-separated locations 
(and as with some of multiple recent others, not in Central Park) - firstly to 
2 loyal birders of Inwood Hill Park in northern Manhattan, N. O’Reilly, & N. 
Souirgi, for the Connecticut they found by the ‘overlook’ at Inwood, 
high-ground-in-the high ground of that park; and equally, to A. Burke who’s one 
of a few who check places such as, for Sat. morn.’ - DeWitt Clinton Park (!) on 
the far west side, immediately east of the West Side Highway (and the Hudson 
river just beyond) & bordered by W. 52nd & W. 54th Sts. - this latter 
Connecticut enjoyed by multiple other happy observers later, as it strutted 
about in the sparse habitat available for such a typically-skulking 
shrubbery-loving species!  And indeed, already placing a bit of an exclamation 
point on the more-than-a-few of that warbler species in N.Y. County alone, 
these sightings are sort of off-the-charts (for recent fall seasons, anyhow) … 
and regionally, this has been so as well.  (There’s also been at least an 
additional Connecticut, the 3rd such of the day for Manhattan island, in the 
park that’s most-covered by birders of any in N.Y. County - that’d be Central; 
that 3rd-bird walking about, fairly aloof inside the low fencing of the 
inner-circle of the A.Ross Pinetum, western sector, which is n.-w. of the Great 
Lawn.  And poss. about the 5th or 6th or more for that park/that species of 
this month!)   And/but, seriously, to get a warbler-checklist going for -DeWitt 
Clinton Park!- on the far-west of Manhattan, that is on-the-lookout 
bird-finding.

Also of note, at Inwood Hill Park, a pair of American Pipits were also added to 
the season’s checklist for the county, and figured as well with a number of 
recent/regional sightings of that species, which is not at all 
commonly-detected in N.Y. County.  P.S., it seems the American Bittern found (& 
photo’d.) at Inwood Hill Park on Friday, 9/25, by D. Karlson was not 
re-discovered the following day, although the species could yet show again in 
the area.

Thanks also to J. Wooten, finding (at least) the 4th White-crowned Sparrow for 
N.Y. County, this latest also in Central Park on 9/26.  And thanks also to all 
of the many birders who collectively noted up to 24 species of warblers in N.Y. 
County on the same day, 9/26 - with up to 22 of those species seen in Central 
Park alone, all throughout. Some of the many warbler species running a little 
'late-in-season', but none (so far) at all unpredecedently so.  A Prairie 
Warbler was among warblers found in Riverside Park (northern area) by 3 
friends, K. Fung, U. Mitra, B. Raik; and a Canada Warbler was a slightly late 
bird found in Battery Park by T. Olson; these 2 (separate) sightings on 9/26.

With all of this ‘warbler-frenzy’, the first Pied-billed Grebe of the fall in 
the Central Park reservoir had received a bit less attention.

Those out reasonably early noted yet another strong movement of Blue Jays, 
generally working SSW. There was some additional flight in early morning, but 
less than other days earlier this week.  Counts of Y.-b. Sapsucker were as they 
had been for weekdays this past week, which were already up from the week 
prior.   … Incidentally, large flocks of Blue Jay have been noted west at least 
 into the central Plains states, and a lot of this is fairly-standard movement, 
but it will be interesting to see if these (diurnal) jay migrations get even 
stronger over coming weeks.

- - - - -
Going back to discussion of the recent Queens County, N.Y. City Yellow-headed 
Blackbird (a male in bright plumage), in my notes in last brief post on that 
subject, I ‘put' tertials where retrices belonged, that is, on that bird in 
question, it in fact had retrices (tail feathers), as well as some wing 
feathers that appeared (to me & at least some other observers who first pointed 
this out to me, with help of photos by several other birders) to have been 
neatly (& intentionally?) cut, and thus a mystery, as that species is, in 
addition to the illegality of a person doing so, not a usual object of the 
cage-bird trade, at least as far as known in the U.S. - the various photos of 
that bird in flight, in particular, illustrate the odd situation for that 
individual, which was able to fly - but, from where, when, etc.? And yet also, 
as already pointed out to this list’s readers, that species has a well-known 
tendency to vagrancy to the eastern U.S. & beyond, & this current month is not 
at all out-of-the historical record of many such ‘vagrant’ wanderings to this 
far east & also well beyond NY state.

-  -  -  -  -
"This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make 
it a good place for all of us to live in.” - Te

[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sat. Sept. 26, 2020: 13 Species of Wood Warblers, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Brown Thrasher, Tufted Titmouse

[Deborah Allen]

Central Park NYC
Saturday September 26, 2020
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.

Highlights: 13 Species of Wood Warblers including Wilson's and Cape May 
Warblers, uptick in numbers of Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Blue Jay, Red-breasted 
Nuthatch, and Brown Thrasher, Tufted Titmouse.


Canada Goose - 10
Mallard - 12
Mourning Dove 10
Chimney Swift - 6
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 at the Oven
Herring Gull - 5 flyovers
Double-crested Cornorant - 1 flyover
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 adult perched near Delacorte Theater
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 9
Downy Woodpecker - 3
Northern Flicker - 7
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Pinetum
Empidonax Flycatcher - 1 Maintenance field
Eastern Phoebe - 1 Turtle Pond (Carine Mitchell)
Blue-headed Vireo - 2 Sparrow Rock
Red-eyed Vireo - 6
Blue Jay - around 30
American Crow - 5, also heard
Tufted Titmouse - 1 - finally seen again after a long absence (our FOS)
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 20-25
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Shakespeare Garden
House Wren - 2 (Shakespeare Garden & Maintenance Field)
Winter Wren - 1 Shakespeare Garden
Carolina Wren - 2 Turtle Pond (Carine Mitchell)
Golden-crowned Kinglet - seen on Friday 9/25 West side of Wildflower Meadow
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 7
Veery - 1 in Amur Cork east of Azalea Pond
Swainson's Thrush - 3
American Robin - 10
Gray Catbird - around 15
Brown Thrasher - 8
Eastern Towhee - 2 (female at Upper Lobe, male west side of Great Lawn)
White-throated Sparrow - 4
Common Grackle - around 60
Ovenbird - 4
Northern Waterthrush - 3 (Upper Lobe, Gill Source, King of Poland - C. Mitchell)
Black-and-white Warbler - 4
Common Yellowthroat - 4
American Redstart - 15
Cape May Warbler - 2 (Pinetum & Upper Lobe)
Northern Parula - 15
Magnolia Warbler - 7
Yellow Warbler - 1 Oven
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 Mugger's Woods
Palm Warbler - 1 "Western" Turtle Pond (Carine Mitchell)
Pine Warbler - 3
Wilson's Warbler - 1 Turtle Pond (Carine Mitchell)
Northern Cardinal - 5 to 7
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3
Indigo Bunting - 1 Upper Lobe

Deb Allen
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Connecticut Warbler Manhattan

[Alicia Williams]

Being seen, albeit briefly, from 54th Street. Closer to the West Side
Highway but prob 100 yards east of the construction gate. It was around the
yellow bucket at the top of the slope.

On Sat, Sep 26, 2020, 11:29 AM Adrian Burke  wrote:

> Earlier this morning I found an extremely cooperative immature Connecticut
> Warbler feeding on a narrow lawn in the west side of De Witt Clinton Park
> in Hell’s Kitchen, often at very close range. I regret that I did not post
> to this list earlier, but I am told the bird is still being seen, offering
> atypically great views of this usually very secretive species. I viewed it
> from the path within the park but others viewed it from the sidewalk on
> 12th ave by 54th Street, which would be ideal when the bird is on the
> northern side of that lawn where it slopes down towards 12th, as the grass
> can obscure it surprisingly well.
>
> Good birding.
>
> Adrian Burke
> NYC
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[nysbirds-l] Connecticut Warbler Manhattan

[Adrian Burke]

Earlier this morning I found an extremely cooperative immature Connecticut
Warbler feeding on a narrow lawn in the west side of De Witt Clinton Park
in Hell’s Kitchen, often at very close range. I regret that I did not post
to this list earlier, but I am told the bird is still being seen, offering
atypically great views of this usually very secretive species. I viewed it
from the path within the park but others viewed it from the sidewalk on
12th ave by 54th Street, which would be ideal when the bird is on the
northern side of that lawn where it slopes down towards 12th, as the grass
can obscure it surprisingly well.

Good birding.

Adrian Burke
NYC

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[nysbirds-l] Philadelphia Vireo huntington

[Jeanne]

9/25 Philadelphia Vireo seen at Manor farm. Along with a Juvi indigo 
bunting.Huntington LINY

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[nysbirds-l] Tennessee warblerS Setauket

[Jeanne]

2 Tennessee warblers at Frank Melville park setauket,LINY 10am

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