With the super find of a Townsend’s Warbler in Brooklyn / Kings County, NYC (& congrat’s to the 3 finders, as well as all subsequent observers on Thurs., 9/9); it’s worth a note that (other) observers were still seeing and documenting that warbler to the after-6 PM hour, still in roughly same part of Green-Wood cemetery the same day. Hoping it might decide to stay there a while, so that yet more birders who wish to can come along to observe; the species has a ‘mixed’ history of occurences in eastern-vagrancy situations, with both a lot of ‘one-day wonders’ but also a number of lengthier stays by some Townsend’s over the years, in various e. states.
…. On multi-hours in Manhattan (NYC) on Thurs., 9/9, I came up with *not* a whole lot in migrants, and limited others’ reports seem to suggest somewhat the same around the island. I was able to photograph the female-plumaged N. Pintail on the Central Park reservoir (in very light rain, in the morn’), which had been there a few days. (A drake pintail was not seen again after it’s showing at the Hudson River’s W. 79th St. ‘boat-basin’ on the 7th, but might still be somewhere in the area). At least 10 warbler species (none of them vagrant nor rare) were seen in my wanderings, & from reports, not much more was found around Manhattan, albeit with less effort by fewer observers relative to prior days with much more seen. Such locations as Battery Park, Bryant Park, & of course Central Park all seemed to indicate some departure by Thursday. The numbers of such recently-regular migrant spp. for Manhattan as Veery, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak -and even some of the Gray Catbirds- appeared to have dwindled here by Thurs., while some species might have held on a bit, such as Red-eyed & Warbling Vireo[s]. But more should be noted with a greater no. of observers out & about, thru this week-end. There was very strong migration overnight Thurs. into Friday / 10th, and it will be interesting to see what the arrivals include. As noted previously, there’ve been multiple Connecticut Warbler sightings (and some with strong documentation) in the region, including in NYC over the past week+. More might be moving, along with all the rest of many now-anticipated migrant species. Good birding, and thanks to the reporters still using this list for reports of rarities! 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/ --
