A nice find on Governors Island -a part of New York County- for Saturday, Sept. 21 was American Pipit, a species that is annual in the county but often can be overlooked in both passage and even if grounded. This individual on 9-21 was photographed and was seen in flight as well as landed. Plenty of additional migration has been seen in the county, with Governors, Randalls and Roosevelt Islands all having good influxes and passages of migrant birds. At Inwood Hill Park in northern Manhattan, one of the recent sightings included Marsh Wren, over recent days. Other of the northern Manhattan parks also have been productive. A long-lingering Yellow-breasted Chat may have been last seen at Bryant Park in mid-Manhattan on Friday, 9-20, but more observations there will tell if has departed. ... Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - thru Saturday, September 21 - the last full day of summer by most calendars.
By Friday, 9-20 there were arrivals in the county and in Central Park, of Slate-colored Juncos, the first of the southbound season that we commonly refer to as our fall-bird season. These also were present on Saturday. A modest influx, as with some other species of a kind which can potentially linger into winter, with very light fresh additions of some sparrows, especially -more- Lincoln's, and Savannah and Swamp, among the others still coming in. Common Nighthawk as in multiple prior days was still perched in areas not far from Turtle Pond in Central Park, into Saturday, 9-21. These have had many observers over this past week in that area, and there also have been birds in flight, including other than as seen from Central Park, in N.Y. County overall. The following migratory American warblers were seen in Central Park on Saturday, Sept. 21st - Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Black-and-white Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler American Redstart Cape May Warbler Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided 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 Wilsons Warbler All of the above 24 species were seen by multiple observers, some in not-for-profit guided bird walks, and through all of the park and in many discrete locations therein. A few of the species are running a bit late for typical occurrences in the region. We are not-yet to a point where Yellow-rumped -Myrtle form- Warbler becomes among the most-common, and can be eventually the most-numerous on passage. At least to Thursday, Sept. 19th, Connecticut Warbler was seen and photographed in the Ramble area of Central Park, with multiple observers, although more sightings came late in the day. Other recent sightings at Central Park have included - Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Wood Duck Gadwall American Black Duck Mallard Northern Shoveler Green-winged Teal Hooded Merganser - one seen daily for many weeks already, a very early arrival. Osprey Bald Eagle Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk 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 Yellow-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk - as noted above. Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - several, and these appear to be freshly arrived. Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Yellow-shafted Flicker Eastern Wood-Pewee Empidonax-genus flycatcher - some not identified to species. Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher - thru Saturday, Sept. 21. Eastern Kingbird Blue-headed Vireo - increasing a bit. Yellow-throated Vireo - thru at least Friday, Sept. 20. Warbling Vireo - becoming scant lately. Philadelphia Vireo - still being found to Saturday, Sept. 21. Red-eyed Vireo - still in the multiple. Common Raven Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch - daily sightings and in multiple locations. White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren - getting just slightly late for this park. Winter Wren - scant arrival. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - ongoing small numbers but likely to increase soon. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Veery - getting late, and now scant in this county. Gray-cheeked Thrush - multiple and some may also actually be Bicknell's Thrush, but many can be safely assigned simply as gray-cheeked types. Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush - no real increases yet. Wood Thrush - far fewer now. American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling House Sparrow Cedar Waxwing Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed -Slate-colored- Junco Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch - small numbers over recent weeks. House Finch American Goldfinch Many of the above were still being seen into Saturday, Sept. 21st at Central Park. Thanks to the many quiet, courteous, keen observers and photographers out at all hours and in all sectors of the park, finding so many birds and offering reports via non-X alerts and as always thru eBird and with media archived in the Macaulay Library. .. There have been some insects of interest in the past week in Central Park, including a photographed Carolina Saddlebags dragonfly, and among many butterflies seen, White-M Hairstreak, Cloudless Sulphurs, Common Buckeye, as well as about 18 additional butterfly species, some migratory Monarchs among them. Many more insect sightings, with some who specialize in observing those in this park and also elsewhere. Good observations in autumn to all, and Happy fall equinox -- Tom Fiore manhattan -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") 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