Excellent fresh migration has been occurring overnight from Friday into Saturday, and should bring in some new and increased migrants as well as carrying-out at least some southbound migrants that had lingered and are less-expected into October here. .. Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City -Friday updates- October 4th - up to 24 species of migratory American Warblers on the day...
Firstly, The Pool just northeast of W. 100th St. at Central Park West, with its Tealstravaganza continued with as-of Friday, a second Blue-winged Teal joining in the duckage, as first hinted-at thru photos and comments by the first-finder of the 1st-sighted B-w. Teal, which has lingered some days. These 2 Blue-wingeds were seen on Friday by numerous additional observers and photographers. A quintet of Green-winged Teal also were lingering on Friday at The Pool of Central Park, and the other ducks of Central again included long-staying Wood Ducks and N. Shovelers and etc. which are likely to further increase. At least 2 Yellow-billed Cuckoos were sighted in Central Park on Friday, in separate areas, the n. end of the park and the more-southerly Ramble area, and each individual cuckoo spotted by birders who often lead not-for-profit guided bird walks - Thanks to M. Rakowski and J. Giunta for those Friday-finds, in their respective sectors walked with their participants. Of warbler species in Central Park, with the photographed, eBirded, and quickly-confirmed Thursday Oct. 3rd find of the male Golden-winged Warbler at the parks north end, many more observers were pleased to also see a female on Friday, although far more of the many Friday observers in that area watched the active male, relatively fewer also got to observe the female, while even fewer were aware of the Blue-winged Warbler also in that same area. In terms of date-occurrences, the at-least-two Blue-winged Warblers for Friday 10/4 -one of the two in the same area where the Golden-winged warblers were ongoing, and another Blue-winged Warbler in the Ramble, both seen by multiple observers in each location- were actually the more-unexpected at the Oct. date, but we have been seeing a broad range of migratory American warblers both showing late, and with the now-expected increases of such as Myrtle Yellow-rumped, Palm, and some Orange-crowned Warblers. The Orange-crowned Warbler seen by many and photographed in the Ramble on Friday was just the latest of some recently showing in N.Y. County. An adult male-plumaged Hooded Warbler was found in the northern sector of Central Park by one of our astute birders of Manhattan, A. Evans. Listed below are all of the known warblers, seen by a total of collectively far more than 100 observers and photographers, all around the park and at all hours from daybreak thru dusk hour. Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush, Golden-winged Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, Tennessee Warbler, Orange-crowned Warbler, Nashville Warbler, 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-form Yellow-rumped Warbler, Prairie Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler. There is a fair chance that even an additional species to the above may have been found on the day. ... Many many more species of migrants were seen on Friday, in Central Park, and yet more-so in other locations including on other islands of N.Y. County. More on some of those many birds in a future report. There were still reports by reliable observers of Veery, which is getting quite late, albeit these being individual stragglers that are lingering. .... Good butterfly occurrences lately in the county are likely to include some fresh migrations of the Monarchs for this weekend and seen all around our region. Good and peaceful 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/ --
