Tuesday, Aug. 24th - A single Prothonotary Warbler has made it through 2 full weeks, present in the Central Park Ramble area (Manhattan, N.Y. City) again on Tuesday, with multiple sightings for the day, including areas where one had been seen previously, at the n.w. part of the Lake, and in the Ramble not far from the Gill, or just north of there.
Fresh (or at least recent) arrivals included Mourning, Cape May, Bay-breasted, and Blackpoll Warblers, and at dusk, further arrival of Common Nighthawks moving near the Hudson river, as well as a bit to the east. A minimum of two-dozen species of warblers were present between the 2 nearby parks - Riverside & Central, with as usual, the greater number of species seen at Central Park, by more observers there (and more hours of effort put in there). Migrants also continue to be detected from many other parks & greenspaces, by multiple observers in the county. Other migrants showing small but clear upticks in numbers included Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Scarlet Tanager, and in just recent days, a reinvigoration of Empidonax [genus] flycatchers. The most regular shorebird-migrants in the county have been present: Least, Semipalmated, Spotted, & Solitary (last not as numerous) Sandpipers, along with small no’s. of Killdeer where the latter are regulars. There has been some further raptor movement as well, including Bald Eagle and Osprey moving southwardly. An addition to the sightings of Monday, 8/23 were 5 Mute Swans photographed flying (C. Quinn) past Randall’s Island (in N.Y. County). It can be noted that the Lark Sparrow sighting from Central Park’s n. end on 8/21 corresponded with finds of that sparrow species in multiple states, and at least 2 other reports in eastern NYS at or near that date (one 8/24 in Suffolk Co., NY) That sparrow has not been reported again from Central Park, or N.Y. County, but could potentially be lingering. Below are the 24 warbler species present in Central (& some also Riverside) Park[s] on Aug. 24: Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Blue-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler A much stronger overnight avian migration was occurring for Tuesday night into Wed. (25th), and which was very widespread regionally (and much farther beyond). ... Monarch butterflies continue on the move, and there have been (among multiple other ‘immigrant’ type butterflies), some Cloudless Sulphurs in multiple areas, with at least a bit of increase in recent days. … Seems worth a mention on this list that a Swallow-tailed Kite has been lingering, apparently for some (many?) days in Yates County, NY, with scores of observer-photographers and was present in that county again to 8/24. Another species to note (from 8/20 however) in Kings County, N.Y. City was a photographed (H. Nove) Summer Tanager at Green-Wood Cemetery, a much-birded location in Brooklyn. Good birding to all, Tom Fiore manhattan -- 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/ --
