[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Mon. May 31, 2021: 12 Species of Wood Warblers including Mourning Warbler
Central Park NYC Monday May 31, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: 12 Species of Wood Warblers including Mourning Warbler. Canada Goose - 36 Wood Duck - male Turtle Pond Gadwall - pair Turtle Pond Mallard - 17 Mourning Dove - 21 Herring Gull - 6 Great Black-backed Gull - 1 Reservoir (Deb - early) Double-crested Cormorant - 31 Great Egret - 2 Reservoir (Deb - early) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5-6 Downy Woodpecker - pair King of Poland Northern Flicker - male east of Azalea Pond Great Crested Flycatcher - Mugger's Woods (Bob - early) Warbling Vireo - 3-5 Red-eyed Vireo - 10-15 Blue Jay - 5 American Crow - 3-4 heard-only Barn Swallow - 3 White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (male & female) Humming Tombstone Swainson's Thrush - 10-15 American Robin - 20-30 Gray Catbird - 7-10 Cedar Waxwing - 6-10 House Finch - 5-10 Song Sparrow - 2 perched together (1 singing) north end Reservoir (Deb - early) Baltimore Oriole - 5-10 Red-winged Blackbird - 5-10 Common Grackle - 9-12 Ovenbird - 4-6 Black-and-white Warbler - 2 females (Mugger's Woods, north of Strawberry Fields) Mourning Warbler - 2 (male NW Mugger's Woods, female n. of Strawberry Fields)Bob-early Common Yellowthroat - 4 (3 female, 1 male) American Redstart - 10-12 (2 adult males) Northern Parula - 1 female top of the Point Magnolia Warbler - 3 Yellow Warbler - 2 females (Reservoir (Deb-early), Strawberry Fields) Chestnut-sided Warbler - north of Strawberry Fields Blackpoll Warbler - 10-15 (2 males) Black-throated Blue Warbler - female Swampy Pin Oak Canada Warbler - 2 females Swampy Pin Oak Northern Cardinal - 5-10 -- Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Mon. May 31, 2021: 12 Species of Wood Warblers including Mourning Warbler
Central Park NYC Monday May 31, 2021 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights: 12 Species of Wood Warblers including Mourning Warbler. Canada Goose - 36 Wood Duck - male Turtle Pond Gadwall - pair Turtle Pond Mallard - 17 Mourning Dove - 21 Herring Gull - 6 Great Black-backed Gull - 1 Reservoir (Deb - early) Double-crested Cormorant - 31 Great Egret - 2 Reservoir (Deb - early) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5-6 Downy Woodpecker - pair King of Poland Northern Flicker - male east of Azalea Pond Great Crested Flycatcher - Mugger's Woods (Bob - early) Warbling Vireo - 3-5 Red-eyed Vireo - 10-15 Blue Jay - 5 American Crow - 3-4 heard-only Barn Swallow - 3 White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (male & female) Humming Tombstone Swainson's Thrush - 10-15 American Robin - 20-30 Gray Catbird - 7-10 Cedar Waxwing - 6-10 House Finch - 5-10 Song Sparrow - 2 perched together (1 singing) north end Reservoir (Deb - early) Baltimore Oriole - 5-10 Red-winged Blackbird - 5-10 Common Grackle - 9-12 Ovenbird - 4-6 Black-and-white Warbler - 2 females (Mugger's Woods, north of Strawberry Fields) Mourning Warbler - 2 (male NW Mugger's Woods, female n. of Strawberry Fields)Bob-early Common Yellowthroat - 4 (3 female, 1 male) American Redstart - 10-12 (2 adult males) Northern Parula - 1 female top of the Point Magnolia Warbler - 3 Yellow Warbler - 2 females (Reservoir (Deb-early), Strawberry Fields) Chestnut-sided Warbler - north of Strawberry Fields Blackpoll Warbler - 10-15 (2 males) Black-throated Blue Warbler - female Swampy Pin Oak Canada Warbler - 2 females Swampy Pin Oak Northern Cardinal - 5-10 -- Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] That Heerman’s Gull
A (The) Heerman’s Gull that visited Massachusetts and Rhode Island recently turned up at Cape May, New Jersey yesterday. If it is the same one, then surely it passed through New York somewhere. Ah, but where?, when? Anyone have random photos of gull gatherings that might warrant a good scrutinizing? -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] That Heerman’s Gull
A (The) Heerman’s Gull that visited Massachusetts and Rhode Island recently turned up at Cape May, New Jersey yesterday. If it is the same one, then surely it passed through New York somewhere. Ah, but where?, when? Anyone have random photos of gull gatherings that might warrant a good scrutinizing? -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Arctic Tern, Nickerson Beach
There’s at least one adult Arctic Tern loafing on the beach adjacent to the main tern colony at Nickerson Beach. Flushed periodically by beachgoers. Good birding! Ryan Zucker New York, NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Arctic Tern, Nickerson Beach
There’s at least one adult Arctic Tern loafing on the beach adjacent to the main tern colony at Nickerson Beach. Flushed periodically by beachgoers. Good birding! Ryan Zucker New York, NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] N.Y. County (NYC) Sat.-Sun., May 29-30 - 2 Tanager species; other (wet) migrants
Although he was not a New Yorker by birth or upbringing, Paul Johnsgard, who just passed on a few days ago at the age of 89, was a Cornell University PhD grad., as well as an alum. of other universities for earlier degrees, and was an extraordinarily prolific author of many books, some of them monographs on a variety of bird families of the world, through decades of his long career; he also at times wrote more-popular books, and some aimed to very young readers. He was a real champion of the plains and prairies of N. America, in his studies and writings. He showed an especially strong connection with the sandhills region of Nebraska - & for cranes by that name, and the other cranes. A number of his books were published by Cornell including his first which was on waterfowl, after having worked at the Wildfowl Trust at Gloucestershire, England. He has had many books published for over 55 years on avian subjects as well as more general works. R.I.P., and all condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues. ... Get ready -possibly- for Corthylio calendula - the proposed new (and old-old) Latin/scientific name for the North American breeder and migrant, Ruby-crowned Kinglet. It's one of the potential changes being brought up by the A.O.U. - & that 'new' name was proposed nearly a century-and-a-half ago, so it's not exactly a new notion. There is perhaps now still more understanding of this latter species as distinct from the various Regulus [genus] species which include our Golden-crowned Kinglet, as well as a small number of related Regulus species found (mostly) in the vast Palearctic region of the planet, another one also being an endemic resident on the island of Taiwan, while there is an endemic Regulus also on the Atlantic island of Madeira. . . . New York County (in N.Y. City), incl. Manhattan, Randall's, & Governors Island[s] Saturday & Sunday, May 29th & 30th - So far, it appears that the big-rain (and cold) event of a lot of this region for these several days may not have ushered-in any highly unusual birds, at least into N.Y. County. Or did it…? We’ll see if anything of that sort yet turns up. There were some birders out looking, thru some of the weather - mainly on the 3 largest islands that make up N.Y. County and as is usual, esp. on Manhattan. A singing male Kentucky Warbler was again present in Central Park's north end on Sat., 5/29 and also present in that section were -at least- one-dozen other warbler spp., including multiples of Yellow & Blackpoll Warblers as well as American Redstarts, and Mourning Warbler was still present also in the same general section of that park. Sunday, it was a lot tougher to come up with a variety of species. I was mostly in parts of lower Manhattan Sunday, and the s. section of Central as well as some of Riverside Parks. It was still clear that a good many migrants had stayed on in the weather conditions, esp. as seen in some smaller parks, where viewing can be a little less-leafy in places, compared with the larger parks. A Summer Tanager, perhaps a first-spring male, was found on Governors Island in the 'Nolan Park' section (not too far from the ferry-landings) along with a small variety of other migrants there, plus the varied breeding birds of that island, on Sat., 5/29 (thanks to some of the NYC-Audubon crew, women birders who have regularly found many birds of note on the island and elsewhere). I visited there, too - but mostly had spent a good part of rainy-raw Saturday in the lower half of Manhattan, visiting many of its smaller parks & green-spaces. At least 5 Scarlet Tanagers were found in that time, 2 of them adult males (Union Square Park, & Stuyvesant Square Park), while at least 9 species of warblers were also found (the highest diversity in a smaller park that I found were at Union Square, with 6 species), and to my modest surprise, a Great Crested Flycatcher (calling at times) at the s.e. edge of Madison Square Park, as well as (small-beaked) Empidonax [genus] Flycatchers in at least 3 parks, not giving vocalizations when viewed. Also noted in 7 different locations, from Bryant Park in midtown to as far downtown as The Battery were Swainson's Thrushes, all seen singly. In addition, 2 dark (grayish) cheeked thrushes were present in 2 different small parks, at Stuyvesant Square, and the rather-rarely-birded (I think!!) St. Vartan Park both on Manhattan's east side. The park with seemingly-highest count of lingering White-throated Sparrows was (for me) Bryant Park, with a minimum of 8 there, but very possibly more, as well as at least 2 Gray Catbirds also there. Most of that park's 'migrant' species were in or near the s.w. sector during my afternoon visit. It was good to hear some of the thrushes singing a little (excepting, during times I saw, a few of the 'darker-cheeked' individuals) even in mid-day & later, along with the rains which just possibly, along with
[nysbirds-l] N.Y. County (NYC) Sat.-Sun., May 29-30 - 2 Tanager species; other (wet) migrants
Although he was not a New Yorker by birth or upbringing, Paul Johnsgard, who just passed on a few days ago at the age of 89, was a Cornell University PhD grad., as well as an alum. of other universities for earlier degrees, and was an extraordinarily prolific author of many books, some of them monographs on a variety of bird families of the world, through decades of his long career; he also at times wrote more-popular books, and some aimed to very young readers. He was a real champion of the plains and prairies of N. America, in his studies and writings. He showed an especially strong connection with the sandhills region of Nebraska - & for cranes by that name, and the other cranes. A number of his books were published by Cornell including his first which was on waterfowl, after having worked at the Wildfowl Trust at Gloucestershire, England. He has had many books published for over 55 years on avian subjects as well as more general works. R.I.P., and all condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues. ... Get ready -possibly- for Corthylio calendula - the proposed new (and old-old) Latin/scientific name for the North American breeder and migrant, Ruby-crowned Kinglet. It's one of the potential changes being brought up by the A.O.U. - & that 'new' name was proposed nearly a century-and-a-half ago, so it's not exactly a new notion. There is perhaps now still more understanding of this latter species as distinct from the various Regulus [genus] species which include our Golden-crowned Kinglet, as well as a small number of related Regulus species found (mostly) in the vast Palearctic region of the planet, another one also being an endemic resident on the island of Taiwan, while there is an endemic Regulus also on the Atlantic island of Madeira. . . . New York County (in N.Y. City), incl. Manhattan, Randall's, & Governors Island[s] Saturday & Sunday, May 29th & 30th - So far, it appears that the big-rain (and cold) event of a lot of this region for these several days may not have ushered-in any highly unusual birds, at least into N.Y. County. Or did it…? We’ll see if anything of that sort yet turns up. There were some birders out looking, thru some of the weather - mainly on the 3 largest islands that make up N.Y. County and as is usual, esp. on Manhattan. A singing male Kentucky Warbler was again present in Central Park's north end on Sat., 5/29 and also present in that section were -at least- one-dozen other warbler spp., including multiples of Yellow & Blackpoll Warblers as well as American Redstarts, and Mourning Warbler was still present also in the same general section of that park. Sunday, it was a lot tougher to come up with a variety of species. I was mostly in parts of lower Manhattan Sunday, and the s. section of Central as well as some of Riverside Parks. It was still clear that a good many migrants had stayed on in the weather conditions, esp. as seen in some smaller parks, where viewing can be a little less-leafy in places, compared with the larger parks. A Summer Tanager, perhaps a first-spring male, was found on Governors Island in the 'Nolan Park' section (not too far from the ferry-landings) along with a small variety of other migrants there, plus the varied breeding birds of that island, on Sat., 5/29 (thanks to some of the NYC-Audubon crew, women birders who have regularly found many birds of note on the island and elsewhere). I visited there, too - but mostly had spent a good part of rainy-raw Saturday in the lower half of Manhattan, visiting many of its smaller parks & green-spaces. At least 5 Scarlet Tanagers were found in that time, 2 of them adult males (Union Square Park, & Stuyvesant Square Park), while at least 9 species of warblers were also found (the highest diversity in a smaller park that I found were at Union Square, with 6 species), and to my modest surprise, a Great Crested Flycatcher (calling at times) at the s.e. edge of Madison Square Park, as well as (small-beaked) Empidonax [genus] Flycatchers in at least 3 parks, not giving vocalizations when viewed. Also noted in 7 different locations, from Bryant Park in midtown to as far downtown as The Battery were Swainson's Thrushes, all seen singly. In addition, 2 dark (grayish) cheeked thrushes were present in 2 different small parks, at Stuyvesant Square, and the rather-rarely-birded (I think!!) St. Vartan Park both on Manhattan's east side. The park with seemingly-highest count of lingering White-throated Sparrows was (for me) Bryant Park, with a minimum of 8 there, but very possibly more, as well as at least 2 Gray Catbirds also there. Most of that park's 'migrant' species were in or near the s.w. sector during my afternoon visit. It was good to hear some of the thrushes singing a little (excepting, during times I saw, a few of the 'darker-cheeked' individuals) even in mid-day & later, along with the rains which just possibly, along with
