Date: 5/16/25 3:40 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC - Thursday, May 15 - Summer Tanager, C. Nighthawks, 21+ Warbler spp., etc.
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - Thursday, May 15th -
The not-for-profit walk led for the NYC Bird Alliance org. with twenty participants saw another Summer Tanager, this one an adult male which was also singing, in the north end of the park. That bird was around the north end of the park all day on Thursday, and there may have been at least 1 additional non-adult or non-male Summer still lingering also. The adult male was photographed and audio-recorded. Scarlet Tanagers are also continuing all around, and in the multiple in the park.
One of the birds of note in the Central Park Ramble on Thursday was a White-eyed Vireo - a species which nests in parts of N.Y. City in very modest numbers. And for the park on the 1 day, Thursday featured at least 21 species of migratory American warblers of which all were seen, not just heard, and all of the 21 were seen by multiple observers with none of these seen having being noted as ‘early’ in any non-early way.
Just one of the many highlight species among the Parulidae were a couple of Worm-eating Warblers, at least one in the Central Park Ramble. Even late-moving Pine Warblers were still being found in the park thru Thursday. There have been some Common Nighthawks again found in Central, including becoming active at dusk-hours, on recent days this week into Thursday. Numerous Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are still coming thru, with some at for-example the flowers in the Rambles Tupelo Meadow and in other parts of the park to Thursday. There are also still actual Lincolns and also White-crowned and Swamp and Savannah Sparrows, in addition to the multiple Chipping, Song, and lingering and still-passing White-throated Sparrows around the park. In waterfowl, although highly-reduced in the past week, there was still N. Shoveler, and Wood Ducks which have been ongoing here.
At Central, Solitary and Spotted Sandpipers were still very regular in some locations, while Least Sandpiper is usually much more-limited and may be watched for at the C.P. reservoir in particular, more-so if having high-power optical equipment. Some Least Sandpipers are showing in other areas of Manhattan and in the county in general. Multiple Empidonax were still around at Central Park thru Thursday, oincluding Least, Acadian and Willow Flycatchers.
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North of Central Park in Manhattan, there were several Semipalmated Plover sightings, at both Sherman Creek on the Harlem River, and off Inwood Hill Park at the northern tip of Manhattan island. Bobolink was just one of many migrants at Inwood Hill on Wed., 5-14. A Lincolns Sparrow and some additional migrants such as Wilsons Warbler were found on a not-for-profit guided walk at Bryant Park in mid-Manhattan on Thursday, these birds seen by many on that walk.
Common Nighthawks are showing in some other locations in the county and might be watched-for in dusk hours, or by chance also at other times. A good many folks, birders included, have been seeing the 2 lingering Coyotes as well, thru this week in Central and that including some full-daytime sightings.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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