Those Broad-winged Hawk numbers actually pushed through at Mexico, New York’s Derby Hill watch-site to the tune of near 20,000 of that species for the day, for Sunday’s (4/24/22) full tally from that site. Quite a day’s flight for this region!, The ANHINGA which was seen in Chautauqua Co., NY and photo’d by Keith Stock on 4/23 has had that photo placed in the Macaulay Library archive: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/439450091 Thanks also to Rich Guthrie for putting word out after the sighting that one day, apparently this was a single-observer rarity, happily a well-documented one. .... New York County (in N.Y. City), including Manhattan, Randall’s Island, and Governors Island Another species from 4/24 now placed in the photo-documented and described list of various migrant arrivals for that day was Veery, with at least one of such finds coming in the n. end of Central Park on Sunday; at least one photo, with multi. observers noted and thanked, is in eBird, and the Macaulay Library. A number of species that have moved thru already, some not mentioned at all in prior reports, include Eastern Whip-poor-will (and other crepuscular and nocturnally active species which, where seen, might have been disturbed by numbers of seekers had their presence been shared widely in some of the sections of the county where very large numbers of people congregate, especially with fine weather. We also have had a few late-lingering birds, one example of those being [Red] Fox Sparrow, with a very few still present on 4/24, which date also appears to have been the last one in the week+ long stay by a male Prothonotary Warbler which was seen by so many at Central Park’s north end. (That species can also show up in May on migration and might be watched for with that month coming along, as well.) Broad-winged Hawk was noted & confirmed in Central Park on Sunday, 4/24. Black Vulture also occurred on Sunday in the county. . . . . Monday, April 25: Chimney Swifts seen in high numbers and at times in a roiling-boil in the skies overhead can be an indicator for strong general migration in-season, and this seemed so on Monday morn’ over parts of Manhattan. Among the 20 species of American Warblers found on the day for the county was a male Blackburnian, at Governors Island. An Orange-crowned Warbler at Central Park (noted by some obs. as found by E. Paredes) was likely a freshly-arrived spring migrant, rather than one of the multiples of the species which had successfully fully overwintered in the county. The below list, very lightly-annotated, likely omits some migrants or other birds which were present on Monday in the county. Red-throated Loon (1 continuing on the Central Park reservoir)Common Loon (some flyovers as well as small no’s lingering on county salt-watersDouble-crested CormorantGreat Blue HeronGreat EgretSnowy EgretGreen HeronBlack-crowned Night-HeronTurkey VultureCanada Goose[Atlantic] BrantMute Swan (a pair have been regularly seen lately from Randall’s Island)Wood Duck (a drake who has been friends with a female Mallard at Central Park was also lingering)GadwallAmerican Black DuckMallardNorthern ShovelerBuffleheadRed-breasted Merganser (lingered on around county salt-waters, but for how much longer?)Ruddy Duck (almost all gone now? This species sometimes shows in early May here)OspreyBald EagleSharp-shinned HawkCooper's HawkRed-tailed HawkAmerican KestrelMerlin (still being seen)Peregrine FalconAmerican Coot (continuing)KilldeerSolitary SandpiperSpotted Sandpiper Laughing GullRing-billed Gull[American] Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull['feral'] Rock PigeonMourning DoveChimney SwiftRuby-throated HummingbirdBelted KingfisherRed-bellied WoodpeckerYellow-bellied SapsuckerDowny WoodpeckerHairy WoodpeckerYellow-shafted FlickerEastern PhoebeGreat Crested FlycatcherEastern KingbirdWhite-eyed VireoBlue-headed VireoYellow-throated VireoWarbling VireoBlue Jay Common RavenAmerican CrowFish CrowTree SwallowNorthern Rough-winged SwallowBarn SwallowBlack-capped ChickadeeTufted TitmouseRed-breasted NuthatchWhite-breasted NuthatchBrown CreeperCarolina WrenHouse WrenWinter WrenGolden-crowned Kinglet (becoming scant)Ruby-crowned KingletBlue-gray GnatcatcherVeery Hermit ThrushWood ThrushAmerican RobinGray CatbirdNorthern MockingbirdBrown ThrasherEuropean StarlingCedar Waxwing -Blue-winged WarblerOrange-crowned WarblerNashville WarblerNorthern ParulaYellow WarblerCape May WarblerBlack-throated Blue WarblerYellow-rumped WarblerBlack-throated Green WarblerBlackburnian WarblerPine WarblerPrairie Warbler Palm WarblerBlack-and-white WarblerAmerican RedstartWorm-eating Warbler OvenbirdNorthern WaterthrushLouisiana WaterthrushCommon Yellowthroat -Eastern TowheeChipping SparrowField SparrowSavannah SparrowSong SparrowLincoln's SparrowSwamp SparrowWhite-throated SparrowDark-eyed JuncoNorthern CardinalRose-breasted GrosbeakIndigo BuntingRed-winged BlackbirdRusty BlackbirdCommon GrackleBrown-headed CowbirdOrchard OrioleBaltimore OriolePurple FinchHouse FinchAmerican GoldfinchHouse Sparrow And likely some additional species. Good birding to all, Tom Fiore Manhattan
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