Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - Monday, September 9th - A young Red-headed Woodpecker was seen Monday morning thanks to B. Bomkamp and B. Van Doren, near the north arm of the Lake in Central Park, by the n-w sector of the Ramble, perhaps the same bird lingering a while in that area, or just as possibly a new or more-recent arrival.
Another report, for Monday 9-9, of Connecticut Warbler, at the Loch in Central Parks northern sector, this also might be a lingering individual, or could be a newer arrival there - but highly unlikely the same individual Connecticut that was seen in a different part of the same park -a good way farther south- on Sunday. The other warbler species present in Central Park on Monday 9-9 included the following - Ovenbird Worm-eating Warbler Northern Waterthrush Blue-winged Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Mourning Warbler - photod and observed by Turtle Pond early and late in day on Monday, plus others in park. Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler American Redstart - still seeming the most numerous species of warbler around. Cape May Warbler Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Palm Warbler Pine Warbler Myrtle -a.k.a Yellow-rumped- Warbler Prairie Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Canada Warbler - few remained. As an additional note, none of the sightings noted above and anywhere herein had the euphemism -early- attached to the sighting, and all species were observed by more than one person, with most being seen by many different observers at various times and locations. Cape May and Black-throated Green Warbler sightings seen by multiple -non-early- observers - as were all of above. Many birders commented on the high numbers of hummingbirds being found, just in this one park, but also in many more locations around Manhattan as well. All presumed or proven to be Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. Many more migrants and some resident birds were seen on Monday 9-9 at Central Park, the below listing includes some of those - Common Loon - flyover. Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron - getting a bit late. Black-crowned Night-Heron Canada Goose Wood Duck Gadwall American Black Duck Mallard Northern Shoveler Green-winged Teal Osprey Bald Eagle Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Broad-winged Hawk - few, passage migrants. Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull American Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull feral Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk - dusk. Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher - Red-headed Woodpecker - as noted at top of this report, a young bird, lacking a red hood. Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Yellow-shafted Flicker Eastern Wood-Pewee Least Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax-genus Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay Common Raven American Crow Fish Crow Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Veery - modest numbers. Gray-cheeked Thrush -some of possible Bicknells- but many of such best left simply as gray-cheeked types. Swainsons Thrush Hermit Thrush - very scant, and still quite early for this county. Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling House Sparrow Cedar Waxwing Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch House Finch American Goldfinch and perhaps some additional species as well for Central Park on Monday 9-9. - - Of interest as early-arrivers were sightings of some Atlantic Brant passing Inwood Hill Park in northern Manhattan, and Brown Creeper photod in Washington Square Park in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan, these each noted for Mondays nice influx and passage of more migrants to and thru the county. - - - Species of note -for this county- at Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan, besides the ongoing Yellow-breasted Chat seen by now by more than 400 observers, and likely more with passersby also included were a continuing Marsh Wren, continuing Lincolns Sparrow, and continuing Mourning Warblers in at least 2 parts of this relatively-compact park with its various shrub-hedgerows and flower plantings as well as fairly-thin plantings of trees. There have been at least one-dozen warbler species reliably seen at Bryant Park so far this month, also showing there have been Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Wood and Swainsons Thrush as well as possible other thrush species, flycatchers including E. Wood-Pewee and others, and for at least a few who have looked up a lot more, the occasional flyovers of American Kestrel and Peregrine Falcon, as well as occasional gulls, with the East and Hudson Rivers not very far out from this mid-Manhattan park. Thanks to so many quiet, keen, courteous observers and photographers for sharing reports and some excellent photos. Good birding to all, Tom Fiore manhattan -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") 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