[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Fri. April 19, 2024: Spring Migrants

[Deborah Allen]

Central Park NYC - North end
Friday April 19, 2024
OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob.

Highlights: Osprey, Six Species of Wood Warblers including Black-and-white 
Warbler and both Waterthrushes, Sparrows including Chipping, Field, Savannah 
and Eastern Towhee, Blue-headed Vireo, Rusty Blackbird. 


Canada Goose - 21
Mallard - 6
Green-winged Teal - pair continued at the Pool
Ruddy Duck - 1 male Harlem Meer
Mourning Dove - a dozen
Chimney Swift - flock of around 20 over the Meer
Herring Gull - flyover
Double-crested Cormorant - 10-12
Great Blue Heron - 1 flyover Meer (after lunch)
Great Egret - 6-8 flyovers, and 1 perched at the Meer
Osprey - 2 Meer (after lunch) 1 catching a Brown Bullhead, the other carrying a 
tail
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 flyover
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 Loch
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 male Grassy Knoll
Northern Flicker - half-a-dozen
Blue-headed Vireo - 4 (Dan Stevenson)
Blue Jay - pair building a nest and a few others
Tree Swallow - reported at the Meer by PhillippeSoriano
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 6-8
Barn Swallow - reported at the Meer by Ruben Giron
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15-20
Brown Creeper - 1 Loch (Scott Brevda)
Carolina Wren - heard Conservatory Garden
Winter Wren - 3
Brown Thrasher - 1 Loch (Caren Jahre)
Northern Mockingbird - 1 or 2 (Conservatory Garden and Plant Nursery)
Hermit Thrush - 5 or 6
American Robin - 30-40
Chipping Sparrow - 10-12
Field Sparrow - 1 Grassy Knoll (Scott Brevda)
Dark-eyed Junco - 1 or 2 Grassy Knoll
White-throated Sparrow - 30-40
Savannah Sparrow - 2 Grassy Knoll
Song Sparrow - 4 or 5
Swamp Sparrow - 2 (Loch and Pool)
Eastern Towhee - 3 or 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 10-12 including a couple of females
Rusty Blackbird - 1 male in breeding plumage at the Pool (Caren Jahre)
Common Grackle - 10-12
Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 at the Pool
Northern Waterthrush - 1 at the Pool
Black-and-white Warbler - 1 male at the Loch (Caren Jahre)
Palm Warbler - 1 "Yellow" at the Meer (Dan Stevenson)
Pine Warbler - 1 female Green Bench (Caren Jahre and Anindya Seng)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - male at the Pool (Russell Boehner)
Northern Cardinal - female on nest (Scott Brevda)

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[nysbirds-l] Re: [nysbirds-l] Swainson’s Warbler Brooklyn Bridge Park

[jer thorp]

And thanks to Jeff Gramm for this amazing find!

On April 19, 2024, Andrew Baksh  wrote:
> Thanks to Dawn Hannay, Ian Bell and Ryan Mandelbaum who cross posted
> from the various birding reporting outlets.
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> Coordinates from Ian.
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> (40.6957004, -73.9993768)
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> Some details from Ryan.
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> “the bird is ranging across a large area around the brooklyn bridge
> park pier 5 lawn. it is singing every few minutes. it will be seen for
> a bit, then fly to another shrubby patch and go missing for a bit.”
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[nysbirds-l] Swainson’s Warbler Brooklyn Bridge Park

[Andrew Baksh]

Thanks to Dawn Hannay, Ian Bell and Ryan Mandelbaum who cross posted from the various birding reporting outlets.Coordinates from Ian.(40.6957004, -73.9993768)Some details from Ryan. “the bird is ranging across a large area around the brooklyn bridge park pier 5 lawn. it is singing every few minutes. it will be seen for a bit, then fly to another shrubby patch and go missing for a bit.”Good luck if you try for it and please keep on cross posting to help those who are not using the various bird report outlets, such as Discord, WhatsApp etc.Cheers,“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. Be that candle.” ~ AB“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves could free our mind.” ~ Bob Marley“Tenderness and Kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution” ~ Khalil Gibran"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick Douglass風　Swift as the wind林　Quiet as the forest火　Conquer like the fire山　Steady as the mountainSun Tzu  The Art of War(\__/)(= '.'=)                                            (") _ (")                                     Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! Andrew Bakshwww.birdingdude.blogspot.com
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[nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - to 4/18 - lingerers and migrant arrivals

[Tom Fiore]

New York County -in N.Y. City- including Manhattan, Randalls Island and 
Governors Island
thru Thursday, April 18th -

The ongoing male Blue Grosbeak in lower-east Manhattan was seen into the 
late-day of Thursday, in the area of East 3rd St. and Ave. A, and may have 
moved on a bit from that area - further observations may tell. This bird was 
more active again, and hopefully had good feeding in the stay at small 
greenspaces of the areas it had been visiting.

Some early-side arrivals included E. Kingbird at both Randalls Island southern 
end, and Central Parks north end on Thursday, and also at Central Park, 
Yellow-throated Vireo in the north end, in addition to the slight increase of 
Blue-headed Vireos more-generally.  2 additional vireo spp. have been reported, 
and each may be correctly ID'd although these are not fully-confirmed as of 
yet, each will soon-enough be the most common of vireo species in Manhattan and 
both breed on the island.   A number of the early-arrivals of 
neotropical-wintering songbirds that first showed seem to have moved-on quickly 
- just one example, rather early here was Worm-eating Warbler, of which some 
were already on-territories well north of N.Y. City this week, although far 
more of any and all of such early-arrivers will be expected in the coming 
weeks, such as our two breeding species of orioles, and tanagers, Indigo 
Buntings, and others.

A very nice count of at least 23 Purple Sandpipers was made at the rocky 
shoreline of Governors Island on Thursday, 18th and there had been a flyby 
Iceland Gull seen from that island on the 17th. Also showing in those 2 days 
were at least five warbler spp., including Ovenbird and Black-and-white 
Warbler, and a good variety of migrant sparrows, as well as Blue-headed Vireos, 
and many other migrants as well as some breeding species.

In N.Y. County, it appears that of the 16 or more migratory American warblers 
that showed in the past week or so, just half that number of species were still 
being found thru Thursday, 18th. A Hooded Warbler on Wed., April 17th at 
Madison Square Park in Manhattan drew far fewer observers than the 
first-of-spring in the county not long before, at Central Park. More of all 
those warblers, and of additional species are likely to come along fairly soon. 
Most parks, greenspaces, gardens, larger churchyards and the like have seen 
good passage of sparrows and their relatives, with a few species now getting 
scarcer here, such as Fox Sparrow.

Thanks to so many keen observers, and many photographers, out and about 
recently in the county finding and reporting many migrants and other birds.

Good birding to all,

Tom Fiore
manhattan








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