Easter Sunday, 24 April, 2011 - The lingering YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER was again seen in Clove Lakes Park, northern Staten Island (N.Y. City) this morning, as reported to the SI NaturaList. - - - Prospect Park (Brooklyn, N.Y. City) has a Prothonotary Warbler report & will certainly have many other migrants to add in any later reports... the Prothonotary had been reported from next to the Terrace Bridge on the beginning of the Peninsula of Prospect Lake's north shore area - it's possible to have moved a bit, since that initial report earlier. - - - Central Park (Manhattan, N.Y. City) has had a very good arrival of a wide variety of migrant species with, thus far, no real rarities except for the still-lingering VARIED THRUSH (seen a short time ago by the E. 79 Street transverse, north side & south of the SW part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art), as well as the lingering RED-HEADED WOODPECKER just south of the SE corner area of Sheep Meadow - just a bit west or SW of that corner area. At least 2 male-plumaged Hooded Warblers are present today in Central - one in the Ramble and the lingering one at the north woods, which began to sing a bit today. (So far, Manhattan has had at least 19 warbler species, and a 20th would not be a shock on this day. Other boroughs of N.Y.C. may easily push these numbers further still.)
There are migrants in Riverside Park's northern sections from at least 79 Street up through the area of the sanctuary. I am just a little hesitant to report that that 'fire-throated' warbler appeared in Riverside, at about 114 Street at approx. 1:45 p.m. - a bird otherwise known as Dendroica fusca. (If one isn't reported from Central Park today, it's reasonable that it may be in the next several days or so...) Today, Riverside seemed to have the best variety and numbers that it has so far this spring as well - and I did not even get into the woods north of the path's end, nor did I do the "drip" area (below) any justice. Those areas are adjacent to W. 118 - 120 Streets and a bit farther on in the "hidden meadow" etc. More on Riverside later, as my intent is to shortly return to Riverside Park's northern areas again, as it deserves some additional scrutiny today! A more thorough report for Central Park (& elsewhere) may be forthcoming late tonight or tomorrow. It is clearly by far the largest migration movement of neotropical-wintering species so far this year here in NYC - and apparently into much of the region - today... Good birding! Tom Fiore, Manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
