Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - Sunday, September 22nd - Philadelphia Vireo was again seen at Central Park on Sunday, as were multiple Blue-headed and Red-eyed Vireos. The list of warblers found on the day, by individuals and with guided not-for-profit birding walks is below, all for Sunday from Central Park:
Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush - scarcer now. Black-and-white Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Common Yellowthroat American Redstart Cape May Warbler Northern Parula - numbers are up to nearly same as for Am. Redstarts. Magnolia Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler - in the multiple, in various locations, by many observers. Blackburnian Warbler - scarcer now. Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Palm Warbler - the most numerous warbler species in ALL of the park on Sunday. Pine Warbler Myrtle also-known-as Yellow-rumped Warbler (any form other than Myrtle would be very rare). Black-throated Green Warbler Wilsons Warbler Some of the other birds still being seen in Central Park thru Sunday were - Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Wood Duck - ongoing. Gadwall American Black Duck Mallard Northern Shoveler Green-winged Teal - persisting. Hooded Merganser - persisting. Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull American Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull feral Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - recent arrivals, in the multiple. Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Yellow-shafted Flicker Eastern Wood-Pewee Empidonax-genus Flycatcher - few. Eastern Phoebe Blue-headed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo - as noted at top. Red-eyed Vireo Common Raven Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch - multiple. ongoing for many weeks. White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren - getting a little late. Winter Wren - some arrivals were confirmed in the past week. Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Veery - getting a bit late. Gray-cheeked / Bicknell's Thrush - some are definite Gray-cheeked, some are indeterminate among these. Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush - still in low no’s. 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 Slate-colored [Dark-eyed] Junco Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch House Finch American Goldfinch And possibly at least a few more species on Sunday. Thanks to the many individual observers and those leading and/or participating in not-for-profit guided walks, with sponsoring org’s that support conservation, education and science over profits, for so many sightings and photographs of many species on Sunday 9/22. Modest numbers of Monarch butterflies were migrating on Sunday thru / over Central Park and the county more generally. 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/ --
