Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - Wed., August 28th - For all of the park and all day, from before daybreak thru dusk, when some Common Nighthawks were moving overhead, there were just over 100 species of native and wild birds found in, and moving over the park. Many as on recent days were species of migratory warblers. Likely the most numerous of those were again American Redstart, with some other species also in numbers and some species in lowered numbers from the prior day.
There were still some Cape May and Bay-breasted Warblers in the park in more than a few locations, and the watery bathing-spots were as-expected somewhat active as the day progressed. In the park entire, there are at least a dozen of these, in separated areas, that does include inside the Central Park zoo grounds. At the Pool in Central Park's northwest, a Solitary Sandpiper was still to be seen on Wednesday. A few apparently first of the season Northern Shovelers came to the water-body known as the Meer, and to ,the reservoir in Central Park. The long-lingering, early Hooded Merganser was still present there as are Wood Ducks, Gadwalls, and sundry usual Canada-turfgrass geese, and Mallards. - - - Far more can be elaborated on migrations for there and other locations in N.Y. County as migration is again strong around the region into Thursday morning. A bright male Mourning Warbler was among the birds still lingering at Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan, seen and well-photographed again, on 8-28. That and some other birds are not representative of the most-recent migrations, however. Thanks to many additional observers and photographers all around the park, for many reports, which come in via Discord alerts and as eBird alerts, regular reports, and those which are rather hidden to fast-search efforts, and for word-of-mouth sightings noted, and others given privately as is still also common. Good birds, 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/ --
