For both Wednesday and wetter Thursday, September 25th - 26th, at Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan, N.Y. City, a Connecticut Warbler was being observed - along with multitudes of Common Yellowthroats with these species occasionally next to each other in grassy lawn areas or shrubberies, plantings, near watered locations, etc. and, particularly on drier Wednesday with dozens to hundreds of typical tourists, other passersby and of course birders, both oblivious and gawking at the sometimes obliging rarer of these warbler species, the Connecticut as well as some of the Yellowthroats being in first-fall plumages. We are getting into where it may be hard to deduce exactly how many Connecticut Warblers have graced New York County alone - where Manhattan and 3 other islands are located - so far just this month. A good variety of additional migrant birds have been showing at Bryant Park as well in the past week, and still more are certain to appear soon, as everywhere in the region in coming days.
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