Bryant Park, mid-Manhattan, in N.Y. City Wednesday, Sept. 4th - So many birders coming to Bryant Park of a sudden? Actually it is a popular stop for many who can easily get there via many forms of public transit, and for at least some even by walking - from their work places and back - and for the birds that show up there!
A relatively -!- cooperative Yellow-breasted Chat was a bird sought and seen by many on Wednesday, that individual first noted by R. Osickova in the morning, with many other birders arriving thru the day. Also found for the day was a Marsh Wren, just slightly out of place in such a setting but not unprecedented as such - also, as many regulars of Bryant and other smaller manhattan birding sites may know, Yellow-breasted Chats have not merely appeared in Bryant Park over the years but have nearly taken up residence there in past winters, going back decades, to the point of near familiarity in some of those past chat-residencies. On Wednesday alone, at least 8 species of warblers were seen in Bryant Park, and the diversity might have been a bit higher than that there. Palm Warbler, just starting to show in other local parks was among these showing up in Bryant. ... In all of Manhattan including Central Park, at least 22 species of warblers were found on the day. The White-throated Sparrows that could be seen at Bryant Park just now are ones that spent at least all of late spring and summer there. There are just now some Lincolns Sparrows starting to show, with a few arrivals both in Central Park and Inwood Hill Park and the sightings by many observers from Bryant Park. Thanks to many observers and photographers for reports. 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/ --
