Monday, New Years Day - 2024 The Townsends and MacGillivrays Warblers each continue along West 231 Street in the Riverdale section of the western part of The Bronx, part of N.Y. City ... The MacGillivrays showed to more folks from at least late morning onwards, and the Townsends took a bit longer to be spotted and seen, by multiple observers - as noted previously, patience is helpful in seeking good views of either of these vagrant-visitors. The Townsends Warbler has shown a fondness for a well-formed pine tree, which is nearly between 2 driveway on the -north- side of West 231 St. and across from a small looks-almost-unused drive thats got a weedy small vacant lot by it, that lot being on south side of 231 St. - the Townsends has come in to that somewhat prominent 25+ foot tall pine each day since its discovery. The MacGillivrays certainly seems to have become a bit more regular in occurence ON or next to the publicly-accessible lots and sidewalk / street, south side of W. 231 Street, again all this being west of Independence Ave., which is a short way west of the Henry Hudson Parkway.
It is possible the brightening day, with sun by late morning in the west Bronx, helped get some more eyes on the Townsends Warbler which has, as would be expected, spent a good deal of time each day in the coniferous boughs and can play hide-and-seek in the trees it favors. Watch for traffic in the area of these rare-in-east warblers, as many of course are driving in and around for the ongoing holiday, and some of the streets here are fairly narrow. -- Reminder -- Please do NOT enter the grounds or driveways to the nursing care center, as noted in previous reports to this list. There are some in the nursing home who do not wish birders, or any other uninvited folks, to wander in to that private property. Thanks for understanding! Happy Bird Year to all, Tom Fiore manhattan ... Elsewhere in the Bronx, NYC, a male Redhead remains in Van Cortland Park lake, a lake which which is slightly north at its southern end from W. 242 St. and just a modest way east of Broadway in the west Bronx. -- (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/ --
