Thanks for that update Larry.
The Common Greenshank continues, showing quite well near Goose marker 10 on the
loop drive.
Cheers,
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> On Oct 31, 2017, at 11:38 AM, Larry Trachtenberg <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I understand the Common Greenshank is again being reported this morning at
> Brig half way up the east dike on the wildlife drive that’s about half way
> ‘round.
>
> Not a greenshank, but there’s been vesper, swamp, white crowned, and loads of
> savannah sparrows on landfill at Croton Point as well as a few pipits,
> meadowlarks, kestrel and harriers.
>
> Larry Trachtenberg
> Ossining
>
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Fiore
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 8:57 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 10/28-29-30 - Hooded &
> Yellow-throated Warbler, etc.
>
> Belated congrat’s & shout-out to Queens County Bird Club sparrow-skulker
> finders of the LeConte's Sparrow at Pelham Bay Park’s Turtle Cove, Peter
> Reisfeld, Jeff Ritter, and Bobby Veltri; thanks also to Jared Cole; that
> LeConte’s Sparrow ultimately seen or at least glimpsed by additional
> observers, through almost all the rest of Saturday, 10/29. A very nice
> sighting for Bronx County that was, indeed.
>
> Also & more obviously, congrat’s to the many who recently braved the crowds
> of birders to get to see the Common Greenshank staying on at Brigantine /
> Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in coastal New Jersey; there are a lot of
> tales being told of that bird & the birders who went to see it… an eastern
> U.S. “mega” in a true sense. Thanks for this discovery are due Sam Galick &
> Virginia Rettig, who found & photographed the Greenshank. You can see loads
> of photos -from loads of birders- of this individual, but here is one set
> (embedded into an extensive eBird list from later on in the 1st day that the
> greenshank was first reported, 10/23/‘17; these pix and the accompanying
> report are Tom Johnson’s, who is known to many on this list & now around the
> world as well: https://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40091881
>
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> Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City
> Saturday-Sunday-Monday, 28-29-30 October, 2017
>
> Thanks to Andrew Rubenfeld & friends for spotting a Yellow-throated Warbler**
> near the East Drive (park roadway) area of the East 79th St. Transverse Rd.,
> just north of the Maintenance meadow section of the Ramble (it’s NE corner),
> & with other observers also being able to see this unusual fall visitor.
> This bird was seen 3 days in a row, with Sunday’s sighting by 7:20 a.m. - in
> rather ‘misty’ conditions, & then on Monday 10/30 (after the deluge, & ahead
> of the higher winds, in Manhattan), after at least one keen observer had a
> bit of a look for this, I happened on it - with a fair amount of effort - at
> Cedar Hill (east of the East Drive, immediately south of the E. 79th St.
> Transverse road) - however the Yellow-throated was flitting & flying all
> around that hill’s fairly broad expanse of conifers, plane-trees, & some of
> the other trees, & I last made sighting of this warbler as it appeared to go
> off & maybe over the Transverse to the north, possibly also to the
> *direction* OF the south wall of the Met. Museum of Art (wall-portion well
> within Central Park, that is) - or simply in the vicinity of the E. 79th St.
> Transverse. If it ‘sticks’, it may be a bird that moves about in that general
> area a lot (which is also fairly typical of most yellow-throated warblers
> that show in Central, although by far most are of spring occurrence.)
>
> ** This Yellow-throated Warbler is just as likely (as not) to be associated
> with what is shaping up as a fairly significant push of “wrong-way” sorts of
> migrants that have been showing up in eastern / coastal states over the past
> week or so, all the way northeast along the North American eastern coast into
> the Maritimes of Canada. (Yellow-throated Warblers included, with many other
> species of migrants showing just in the past week, in eastern CANADA - &
> also some in coastal northern New England, such as (notably) Fork-tailed
> Flycatcher (photos from New Brunswick, CANADA), Tropical Kingbird (photos
> from Nova Scotia, CANADA - 1st-time fully-documented provincial record, see:
> http://ebird.org/ebird/canada/view/checklist/S40099789 ), Dusky Flycatcher
> (also reported from Nova Scotia), and the “supporting cast” in just Nova
> Scotia select locations over the past week have additionally included
> multiples of: Y.-b. Cuckoo, numbers of at least Red-eyed, White-eyed, &
> Yellow-throated Vireos, various Catharus thrushes including late Veerys, &
> others, other warblers besides the multiple Yellow-throateds (of which
> several from Monhegan Island, off-shore Maine, but far more & of at least 2
> races, in e. Canada; see below report for a hint of the numbers of that
> warbler species) - Hoodeds (in numbers, esp. notable for maritime Canada
> where they do not breed), & a total of well over 20 Warbler species in all,
> from even single-sites in e. Canada, as well as multiples of Summer (& some
> Scarlet) Tanagers, Rose-breasted & Blue Grosbeaks, Indigo Buntings (in the
> probable hundreds -in total- just from e. Canada, some single-site reports of
> dozens of Indigos), & Orioles, mainly Baltimore by reports, & lots of other
> migrants - far more may yet be discovered in coming days or weeks, as birders
> get out - & banding stations continue reporting as well…
>
> And also turning up inland lately (as well as coastally) are Cattle Egrets in
> numbers, with more of this latter species turning up daily (multiples are in
> Maine now, as an example) & much more; for a mere “sampler” of some of this
> “wrong-way” migration event see the incredible numbers of some species in
> this Nova Scotia report: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40159912 For
> those determined to seek out the rarer species, consider that Maryland just
> had it’s first-ever Shiny Cowbird and there’s been Common Ground-Dove in
> Quebec (Canada) recently, among some of the other unexpected migrants from
> southern places. Another species (an irruptive one) to keep in mind are that
> Red Crossbills are making a very strong showing into some Great Lakes &
> midwestern states, & (so far) to a lesser extent east, but they may start to
> be seen almost anywhere & there could be various forms on the move, in
> whatever areas they invade. **
>
> ….
> So, back into Central Park in Manhattan, NYC(!) … had been ongoing Hooded
> Warbler (male-plumaged) seen again at the Great Hill’s w. edges, in & near
> the area known as the P.J. Sharp children’s glade, which is well-circuited
> with small paths & shrubby & un-mowed patches in a wooded edge; on Sat. seen
> by multiple observers; on Sunday seen in the morning at the far northern edge
> of the noted Peter J. Sharp glade, & then again Mon. morning (10/30), but
> back to the southern part of the Sharp glade, on the more SW portion of the
> Great Hill (this last being just up some stairs from a park entrance at West
> 103rd Street.) … the illegally off-leash dog & owner there Monday were sent
> running, by my threat to ‘sic’ park-police on the dog’s owner...
>
> Many other warblers also were continuing to at least Saturday/28th, with
> Orange-crowned, Nashville, Northern Parula, Magnolia, Black-throated Blue,
> Yellow-rumped [Myrtle], Black-throated Green, Pine, Palm, Black-and-white,
> Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush, and Common Yellowthroat. A late Tennessee
> Warbler was also reported by Tod Winston (& possibly other observers) on
> Sat./28th. A number of these were still in the park on Sunday, but by
> Monday/30th, I was unable to find most of these species, excepting as noted
> above for those much-rarer in late fall 2 species, & also Monday, Pines,
> Palms, Yellow-rumpeds [Myrtles], 2 Ovenbirds, & one Nashville- the last at
> the wildflower meadow’s e. edges. There may have been others around on Monday
> esp., perhaps, around the Great Hill, Cedar Hill, & the Pinetums (east &
> west).
>
> Various other species in the 3-day period of 28th-30th in Central Park were:
>
> Pied-billed Grebe (continued, reservoir)
> Double-crested Cormorant
> Great Blue Heron
> Turkey Vulture
> Canada Goose
> Wood Duck
> Gadwall
> American Black Duck
> Mallard
> Northern Shoveler
> Bufflehead (1 drake to at least Sat. on reservoir)
> Ruddy Duck
> Sharp-shinned Hawk
> Cooper's Hawk
> Red-tailed Hawk
> American Kestrel
> Peregrine Falcon
> American Coot (5 continuing on reservoir, seen in group on Mon.,10/30)
> Ring-billed Gull
> [American] Herring Gull
> Great Black-backed Gull
> ['feral'] Rock Pigeon
> Mourning Dove
> ** Great Horned Owl (has just been publicly reported, may or may not be same
> bird I saw earlier in Oct. in different part of park)
> ** Ruby-throated Hummingbird (reports of one from CP Conservany staffer -
> only presumed still this species! at Conservatory Garden Sunday 10/29)
> Red-bellied Woodpecker
> Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
> Downy Woodpecker
> Yellow-shafted Flicker
> Eastern Phoebe (rather few, but still present to Monday, 10/30)
> Blue-headed Vireo
> Red-eyed Vireo (quite late now, Sat., 10/28)
> Blue Jay (many)
> American Crow
> Black-capped Chickadee
> Tufted Titmouse
> White-breasted Nuthatch
> Brown Creeper
> Carolina Wren
> Winter Wren
> Marsh Wren (s. edges of Meer, Sunday 10/29)
> Golden-crowned Kinglet (few)
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet (far fewer by Mon, 10/30)
> Hermit Thrush (still f.common to Sat. & then less-so by Mon. 10/30)
> Wood Thrush (1, C.P. Zoo grounds)
> American Robin (many)
> Gray Catbird (very few)
> Northern Mockingbird
> Brown Thrasher (few)
> European Starling
> Cedar Waxwing (a few small-ish flocks noticed)
> Eastern Towhee (modest numbers, throughout)
> Chipping Sparrow
> Field Sparrow
> [Red] Fox Sparrow (at least Saturday, 10/28)
> Song Sparrow
> Lincoln's Sparrow (at least 1, to Monday 10/30)
> Swamp Sparrow (fewer noted by Mon., 10/30)
> White-throated Sparrow (widespread)
> White-crowned Sparrow (2, to Mon., 10/30)
> Dark-eyed [Slate-colored] Junco (multiple)
> Northern Cardinal
> Red-winged Blackbird
> Common Grackle
> Brown-headed Cowbird
> House Finch
> American Goldfinch (very few)
> House Sparrow
>
> There were still a minimum of ten species of butterflies seen in the
> Conservatory Garden of Central Park alone as of Friday-Saturday, 10/27-28.
> These 10 species were: Cabbage White, Orange Sulphur, Painted Lady (many),
> American Lady, Red Admiral, Common Buckeye (several), Monarch (many!!), &
> these skipper species: Sachem, Fiery Skipper &, on Friday 10/28, an Ocola
> Skipper documented by Ken Chaya in the south garden area.
>
> I’ve learned that the CP Conservancy / Conservatory Garden staff may extend
> the “grace” period for the Korean Chrysanthemum display at Central Park’s
> Conservatory Gardens (in the north garden, near Fifth Ave. & 105-106th
> Streets) to possibly almost mid-November, this being in part thanks to
> popular demand that the flowers there not all be pulled too soon. (In the
> south garden there, a majority of blooming plants in the central beds have
> been taken out, in prep. for spring plantings & bed-preparation). This is
> the largest single remaining show of flowers in bloom in this park at this
> season and can attract a lot of diverse insects - and N.B., MOST of those
> insects now being seen are NOT honey bees, many are flies in the family
> Syrphidae, which may mimic bees! (Close looks & some ID-skills may reveal
> this aspect.)
>
> Those regulars will know well, that for Central Park - and many points within
> the boroughs, of N.Y. City this coming Sunday (as well as prior days in
> Central Park, where the finish-line is located) there will be massive crowds,
> & crowd-control & so forth, for the annual NYC Marathon, coming right up…
> this most obviously affects the area of the finish-line, near West 67th
> Street in the park, but on the day, much of the park can be very busy, &
> helicopters with news-cameras and the like will also be a constant,
> particularly as the race-leaders approach & enter Central for the “sprint” to
> the finish. One can expect that in a few area, parks police, NYPD & so forth
> may re-direct some foot traffic, on Marathon-Sunday.
>
> Good -& quietly respectful- birding & observations to all.
>
> Tom Fiore
> manhattan
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