Riverdale, Bronx County in N.Y. City - Monday December 25 - The MacGillIvrays Warbler is ongoing in its areas of the weekend, and has been seen at the location with a yard and the 2 big bright pink toy car play-items on back edge of that lawn. That area-entry by walking only, do not drive in on the 1-way drive-thru driveway of the adjacent care / nursing home, is off West 231 Street a bit west of Independence Ave. and it is also possible to come in same driveway on foot from Independence. A long 5 foot high white wooden fence is on the south edge of most of all areas the warbler has been seen. The bird also showed, well for some Sunday observers at times, back in and near a few of its first-found positions which are from inside a short gravellly unused drive next to a fenced weedy lot, off 231st south side, and just a bit west of Independence, and also in the west edges of an in-use parking lot with very old cyclone fencing, for which entry to is off Independence, south of 231 St. - all of this territory is within just 50 yards / meters of each other, but with occupied private homes in the midst, thus the need for quiet and respectful observing, and no walking on or into any yards or private property. We hope the neighbors in this area remain as tolerant as they have been of the many holiday-period birders coming for this warbler.
Thanks in part to J. Drucker and L. Fried, for 12/25 early reporting on the rarity. And ongoing thanks to Julian B! Good luck 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/ --
