The Northern Wheatear found by P. Rand and with assist by B. Bolduc, at Orient, Suffolk Co. NY on Sunday Oct. 6th meant that some with a lot of added luck could go for a Black-throated Gray Warbler as well, although that latter warbler was not reported again from the prior area as of early Monday, while of course the Orient Wheatear was being seen again on Monday. Plenty of fine sightings from out-east on Long Island in recent days! ... Still a fine migration in much of the area for Sunday night into Monday, with a bit of interfering-shower activity in the smaller hours of Monday morning to the north of N.Y. City. Many local migrants took advantage of an opportunity to move on and away overnight, while some fresh migration did show, and was arriving for Monday in overnight and into the day on shifting and freshening winds. ... New York County -in N.Y. City- including Manhattan, Randalls, Governors, and Roosevelt Islands and the adjacent waters and skies above - thru Sunday, October 6th -
Multiple nights of strong migrations in the region added interest to the county-birding here. A Lark Sparrow showed at Randalls Island on Saturday, while still-another Clay-colored Sparrow was found at Central Park also on Saturday, Oct. 5th. That day featured overall somewhat-higher diversity in migrants than did Sunday. Still there were plenty of birds around thru Sunday, which included at least 20 species of migratory American warblers in Central Park alone. At least 24 species of warbler were seen the day before, however. By Sunday, some regular migrants and potential long-stayers among them included large increases of Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Golden-crowned Kinglet, and some warblers with a possibly-last huge push of Blackpoll Warbler, as well as even-more of N. Parula, Palm of 2 forms, and Myrtle-form Yellow-rumped Warblers, the latter in the many hundreds as they poured thru in overnight to early morning flight. The larger numbers of migratory American warblers and species diversity in that group had come thru both Thursday and Friday nights, with good finds on Friday into Saturday. The two Golden-winged Warblers were in Central Park again Saturday and, as before, the brighter male was seen and photographed by far more observers - all who arrived were again there thanks to either non-x alerts such as the Discord app, which is in use by the vast majority of birders currently active, or thanks to eBird alerts and regular reports of same as per the norm for many local and worldwide birders. An Orange-crowned Warbler again showed for some at Central Park, on both Saturday and again on Sunday. A small number of Blackburnian Warblers running a bit late were seen in the county thru the weekend, and a few other warbler species were still being seen a bit later in the season than their typical dates of later occurrences, although none were record-late. Plenty of Yellow Warblers were ongoing and still pushing through, not at all unusually in the multiple-waves of that species movements. The dramatic reductions in American Redstart numbers now indicate some of the exodus of what had been ultra common migrants in late summer to early fall here. Orange-crowned Warblers, yes more than just one, were still being seen at Central Park on Monday, 10-7. American Coot was in Central Park by Friday, October 4th, and Great Cormorant was a new arrival no later than the following day in the county. A previous arrival for the month of October, Pied-billed Grebe had been in Central Park by last week. Some slight evidence for waterfowl movements, and at least Green-winged Teals were ongoing at Central Park, with the recent Blue-winged Teal at least into the weekend there. A few Ruddy Ducks have shown in the East River off Manhattan, perhaps elsewhere in the county. Wood Duck continues on for Central Park as had been all summer and into this fall. We anticipate a bit of new waterfowl movement with the chill in parts of the North Country, Canada and etc., in coming days and weeks. Raptors seen in the county included Broad-winged Hawk to Sunday at Central Park, and many others all around the county included Red-shouldered Hawk, Bald Eagle, Osprey, N. Harrier, Sharp-shinned and Coopers Hawks, American Kestrel, Merlin, and mainly resident in the city Peregrine, as well as our many local Red-tailed Hawks. The vultures moving along were mostly of Turkey-type but a very few Black Vultures continue to be noted especially for those observing from n. Manhattan. Chimney Swifts had big onward movements over the weekend - and before then - and numbers by now are lower by far. There have been multiple sightings of Yellow-billed Cuckoo in the county recently and from those observations, we know that some of the cuckoos have been able to devour numbers of the invasive and harmful-to-native trees Spotted Lanternflies - which can fly but are not flies at all, not placed in Diptera as true flies are - another interesting finding of some of our native birds learning to try consuming recently-arrived invasive potential prey or other food items not native to the Americas. Many more migrants could be noted, and may be in a future report for this county. Thanks to many keen, quiet, courteous observers and photographers for so many reports. 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/ --
