Date: 10/10/25 12:55 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC, Summer Tanager new location, Y-br. Chat, plus Central Park … etc.
Two Nelsons Sparrows were eventually reported for Randalls Island just east of Manhattan for Thursday, at the sector salt-marsh patches there, with thanks to all observers and finders. Eastern Meadowlark was another species noted on Randalls for Thursday, Oct. 9th.
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Manhattan, N.Y. City - into Friday, Oct. 10th -
A Summer Tanager -not in adult male plumage- was found at Fort Tryon Park in upper Manhattan both Thursday and Friday. This might or might not be the same individual of several days earlier which was photographed at Inwood Hill Park in upper Manhattan.
The now week-plus staying Yellow-breasted Chat was ongoing at Number Three Bryant Park, the small and narrow plaza a bit west of the actual Bryant Park, this plaza between 42nd and 41st Streets just west of Sixth Ave., the Chat still being sought and seen daily into Friday.
With so many migrants clearing out from farther-north, some birds did drop in for October 9th and some perhaps were ongoing from that massive migration into Friday. Such now-late species as Veery, as well as slightly-late Wood Thrush, Gray-cheeked Thrush, and Swainsons Thrush were all documented in Manhattan - and all in the multiple, including in Central Park, for Thursday, some of those species ongoing to Friday as well.
At least 18 species of American migratory warblers were still found at Central Park into Friday, Oct. 10th, with some still in fair numbers and a few such as Myrtle form Yellow-rumped Warblers in very high numbers, particularly in the rush of migrants on Thursday.
A Bonapartes Gull was one of the less-common but now understood to be annual migrant or visitant species on Thursday Oct. 9th, that individual seen over the Hudson River from the far west terminus of Dyckman St., in upper northwest Manhattan, just south of the Inwood Hill Park Dyckman river-shore ball fields.
Late-ish vireo sightings included a Philadelphia Vireo seen by many-dozens of members and participants to a Linnaean Society of New York guided bird-walk, a not-for-profit organization and series of walks, at Central Park on Tuesday. A White-eyed Vireo might still be ongoing, an individual having lingered in Central Parks Ramble area for this week, also with many observers on some recent days. Other ongoing vireo species are Red-eyed with Blue-headed Vireo now the most-likely and most regular of migrant vireos here.
At Fort Tryon Park on Thursday, Ruby-throated Hummingbird as well as at least 8 species of native sparrows were recorded on that one day. It is beginning to be modestly-late for the Ruby-throated Hummers by now, and any hummingbirds seen by now or on to any time in or approaching winter should be photographed or video-recorded if at all possible. The chance for vagrant rarer hummingbirds will be increasing thru any autumn, in all of the northeast or more-broadly in all of eastern N. America in the coming weeks and months.
American Coot was still another new arrival for Manhattan, at the Central Park reservoir, by Thursday.
A female Wild Turkey was the longest-staying of birds for Manhattan at Battery Park, present there for many, many months by now, and still ongoing.
Thanks to so many keen, courteous, quiet, patient observers and photographers for many alerts all via non-x birding apps, and as ever, alerts and reports via eBird with the Macaulay Library for media archiving including both visual and auditory media.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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