New York County -in N.Y. City- including Randalls Island, Governors Island, and Manhattan, and nearby waters and skies thru Tues, Nov. 28th -
The lingering very rare Black-chinned Hummingbird was still being seen at Randalls Island, more and more when it visits the feeder that had been placed at its favored location there and still requiring some patience, thru 11/28. A Dickcissel had continued to be seen as well on Randalls Island at least up thru 11/25 and might still be lingering. A rare-in-county Snow Bunting was only seen there on 11/22, none since within the county. On 11/26-27, 2 Purple Sandpipers were seen -and nicely photod on the 26th, L. LaBella- at Governors Island, with a Ruddy Turnstone also reported from there on the 27th. A Baltimore Oriole was seen on Governors Island on 11/25 and other birds there from that date included White-crowned Sparrow and Orange-crowned Warbler. In other warbler sightings from around the county, the warbler hotspot in a sense for so late in the year was perhaps Sherman Creek Park just north of Swindler Cove, just north of the east end of Dyckman St., in northern Manhattan where there had been Black-and-white, Nashville, and Orange-crowned among Warblers found fairly recently, with Morninside Park also in Manhattan providing Wilsons and Nashville Warblers very recently, all the above warblers lingering in their respective areas, as was so for some other warbler spp. in select parks or greenspaces recently, esp. so of Ovenbird and Common Yellowthroat, both typical of species that may include straggling individuals in fall-to-winter season. On 11/25, Central Park had just one Canvasback, a one day wonder now rather scarce in the county, long ago -30+ years ago!- a common and even near-abundant sight on the Central Park reservoir, this latest alerted for others to get out and observe also, by H. Cordero. Four Long-tailed Ducks were around the Hudson River near the west end of Dyckman Street on both 11/23 and 11/28. Back on 11/22 only, a Horned Grebe was seen off Randalls Island. Some Monk Parakeet sightings in the county included a group of five showing at least briefly in the north end of Central Park this month with more sightings from near the Harlem River and vicinity this month. Plenty of other species also have shown in recent days. Thanks to many observers and reporters of all of these many birds. Good birding to all, Tom Fiore manhattan -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
