Wednesday, 30 September, 2009
Among the birds of some interest reported not too far from NY are a
Fork-tailed Flycatcher (not just a one-day wonder) from Tues. into
Wed., 9/29-30 in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 2 Western Kingbirds
at Block Island (part of but off 'mainland' Rhode Island), a Western
Tanager just reported from the Lighthouse Point hawk-watch folks (New
Haven Connecticut), and a male Rufous Hummingbird at a feeder for a
few days in Berks County, Pennsylvania thru the weekend... and a
little less recently, Say's Phoebe at Monhegan Island Maine - and in
the other direction, a Black-tailed Gull at Port Burwell Provincial
Park in Ontario Canada (along with W. Kingbird nearby in that
province) and there are actually a good many more such "out-of-
expected-range" birds being reported in the northeastern region of the
continent.
The changing weather does bring new birds, along with moving many of
our summer species & migrants south.
Migration-wise things seem a bit slow in Manhattan just now...
...or in fact they've been speeded south with recent northerlies.
Good birding,
Tom Fiore,
Manhattan
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