Date: 6/1/25 1:27 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - to June 1st
New York County -in N.Y. City- including Manhattan, Randalls, Governors, and Roosvelt islands and the adjacent waters and skies above -
thru June 1 -
The recent stormy weather seemed not to bring down many unexpected birds in this county, even while grounding more species of note in some surrounding counties - while somewhat more expected migrants, a small percentage of the species already running slightly late, were delayed a bit longer, on their northbound passages.
Just one species of shorebird was notable as a very-briefly grounded occurrence for this country, on May 29th and not staying long then, a quartet of Black-bellied Plovers seen by just 3 observers, the finder and then 2 more within the early hours, at Randalls Island that one morning, and not re-found by multiple other visiting and regular observers for that location in later hours and subsequent days. Despite being regular annually on shores and flats of other adjacent counties in the region, this species is decidedly rare in this county, even as flyovers that are sometimes detected.
Semipalmated Sandpipers and Least Sandpipers were reported at Governors Island on May 31. Other shorebirds recently in the county have only included American Oystercatchers in a very few locations not at Manhattan, but near or passing by the outlying islands of the county, as well as Lesser Yellowlegs, Killdeer, and both Solitary and Spotted Sandpipers.
Yellow-billed and Black-billed Cuckoos were still pushing thru, more so the former, into June 1, and a fair diversity of flycatchers continued to the weekend, with Olive-sided Flycatcher among these.
Perhaps a last-fling or surge of passerine and related birds on migration was seen for Friday, May 30 for this county, when for example at least twenty species of migratory American warblers were still found - by many observers in the collective - for the day, diminished just a bit in diversity by the very next day. Among species still showing in the multiple in the county, particularly in Manhattan including at Central Park was Mourning Warbler, thru Sunday, June 1st, with up to 12 additional species of warblers also still around.
Many species are already nesting, and please do nothing at all to disturb any nesting birds or their young. Thanks to the vast numbers of observers and photographers who offered reports via non-x alerts and thru eBird, with the Macaulay library for media.
Good June birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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