Sunday, April 3rd: At Central Park (Manhattan, N.Y. City), the ongoing Yellow-throated Warbler has continued (as somewhat expected) in the same general area[s], near Belvedere Castle, and around the southwest part of Turtle Pond area, as well as fresh forays in the northern edges of the adjacent Ramble. (Thanks again to M. Rakowski and various others for those new / early sightings.)
At the ‘Meer” in the same park’s northern end, an adult Yellow-crowned Night-Heron has shown nicely (photos; multiple observers besides myself), an uncommon bird for both that park, and in general not-too-common for N.Y. County even if a semi-recent ‘regular’ at times out on Randall’s Island. (This latest is one of a good push of Yellow-crowneds that have moved in to parts of southeast NY, in recent days with still more showing up in said region, as I write.) At least 5 warbler species were continuing just in Central Park on Sunday, as had been the prior 2 days, and there are many other migrants and others all around, with in addition some further influx and exodus having occurred, on Sat. night’s big migrations, in the area. And of course, lots of other migrants and other birds in many more locations, all around the county again. Many more D.-cr. Cormorants have been on the move, some Common Loon movement has been occurring, and there were far more Y.-s. Flickers in the early rush of Sunday’s first-light movement, as well as some additional Hermit Thrush moving, still on the modestly-early side for that species main movements in the area. Over the wider region, there’ve been quite good movements of rallids and waders (or ’shorebirds’), and also other waterbirds lately; as a further example / sample of April movements, Caspian Terns have been found to & into Canada & through NY state in select locations, while also being seen just across the Hudson River from Manhattan island, in part of New Jersey. . . . As an example of a still-lingering bird, the long-staying Orange-crowned Warbler was still present on Randall’s Island in N.Y. County - and at least (!) 3 species of swallows were seen, as have been in recent days: Barn, N. Rough-winged, and Tree Swallows, all occurring elsewhere in addition to this location. (& thanks to this Sunday’s multiple a.m.-observers there on Randall’s I.) … A p.s., for thanks to the Staten Island birders who were continuing to note the long-staying King Eider there (Richmond County, NY); & worth adding that the species also has been found lingering in Monroe County NY (Rigney’s Bluff), and an April 2nd find of a 1st-year male of the species was photo-documented at Ft. Niagara (Niagara County) NY, all excellent sightings. Good birding to all, straight thru the drizzles & few April-showers, 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/ --
