Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - The Yellow-throated Warbler originally discovered by Paul Sweet [A.M.N.H.] has continued on in the park, and has increasingly favored some areas of the Ramble, with forays along the small stream formally known as “The Gill” & also, for part of Friday a.m. (4/8), near & at the northeast corner of the Ramble. On some recent days, sightings (& reports) of this rarity were infrequent. (The species also has arrived to some potential-breeding areas in southeast NY, including finds of at least one singing male east of N.Y. City). This Central Park/Manhattan individual can still be challenging to locate, even with fair weather. It likes many higher branches, sometimes in rather tall trees...
Other warblers in the park also continue to include Louisiana Waterthrushes, Palm, Pine, and [Myrtle] Yellow-rumped Warblers all in the multiple. The latter 3 species also are being found in scattered locations around the county, in v. modest numbers. Thanks in part to a bit of sparrow-diversity now, there were at least 67 species found in or over Central Park for Friday, April 8th. . . . . . At Greeley Square Park in mid-Manhattan, a Lincoln’s Sparrow has continued into Friday April 8, and is highly-likely to have wintered locally. [Incidentally, several of us, and including birders who are reliable ‘regulars’ of Carl Schurz Park in Manhattan, think that the Lady-WETA (W. Tanager) of that east-side park may have moved on (flown off, to other parts), earlier in this week. Any new reports (if there are) ought hopefully to include any photos-videos, or descriptions of what was viewed as part of the report[s]. We have 'last-seen' reports from Monday & very early on Tues., 4/4 & 4/5, for now.] This comes after a couple of stake-out-type watches at the Carl Schurz feeder-array area, from Thurs. & Fri. More reporting on all of the county, to come later. 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/ --
