Date: 11/7/25 2:52 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC - 11/6 - Central Park Lark Sparrow, etc.
A Broad-billed Hummingbird confirmed for Derby-Evans township, in Erie County NY, thru at least Nov. 4th is a super-reminder to be watchful for any hummingbirds that may turn up from now thru early spring with a possibility of a vagrant species, and not limited to just one vagrant-species in the realms of possibilities - with photos and videos a near-must to help in confirming species and-or gender with a lot of winter-season or non-adult-male hummers. The Tundra Bean Goose in Nassau County, NY and a bright Purple Gallinule out east in Montauk, Suffolk County, NY were hot-sightings out-east for Thursday, while a photographed Smiths Longspur from Nov. 2nd and 3rd at Shinnecock in e. Long Island was not reported -in ebird- after the 3rd. A few scattered Redpolls have been going through in southern and other parts of NY, with some sightings eastward. Cave Swallows were again moving on Nov. 6th and in southeast NY perhaps more total-birders were on-watch at multiple sites and counties, than the locations which did manage to gather up some nice sightings of this now-annual-in-NYS late-autumn species.
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Manhattan, N.Y. City - Thursday, November 6th -
A Lark Sparrow was photographed and reported in Central Park in an area just-north of the 96th Street Transverse Road that runs east-west through the park, with some seekers trying to re-find this later in the day after the morning find of the rarer sparrow, unfortunately with no further success. This area is north of the large tennis-courts area and is also north of all of the reservoir in Central Park. This bird could potentially still be lingering anywhere within that park. Very windy conditions and a locally-hunting Coopers and perhaps other hawks could have made the sparrows around the area a bit shy as the day went on.
At Inwood Hill Park, 2 of the regular observers for that park noted 5 Snow Buntings passing through, although a slight chance they could be lingering in that area in northern Manhattan and not far from the Hudson River. Also noted for Inwood-area was an Osprey, a species that could possibly be lingering a bit late in that general area of the river although this most-recent for Thursday may have been on its way as so many other birds, including various raptors more seasonally-expected were. Its also worth noting that some Osprey have been following a trend in N.Y. City and vicinity of staying -or moving- quite a lot later than the old-expected later-dates of long-ago, which of course can be said of so many species in the current era - birds now linger when they once-had mostly cleared out to the south in late autumn, and with a lot more in observer-effort and observer-numbers nowadays, vastly more observers being afield, at all seasons in recent decades than in the times of longer-ago-birding. N. Pintail has been noted for Inwood Hill Park, at least as recently as Wed., 11-5 and warblers still being seen Thursday at Inwood have included a Black-throated Blue, a species that has been seen on a CBC at that location in past years.
Farther downtown at the Chelsea waterside park north of W. 23rd St. along the Hudson River greenway, yet another in the multiples of Orange-crowned Warblers recently was found, specifically near the smallish skate-park there nearer to the 23rd St. side. Excellent photos were made available in eBird and the Macaulay Library of this bird.
Some additional warbler species are showing at a lot of various locations on Manhattan island, including in small parks, gardens, green-spaces of many kinds as well as the larger parks, and also out on the other-islands of N.Y. County, with as-expected the most numerous warblers lately being Palm and Myrtle-form Yellow-rumped, as well as Common Yellowthroat and a small-surge of recent Ovenbird sightings. These latter 2 warbler species are annual in occurrence as very-late lingerers and even overwinterers in Manhattan in all recent decades. In many years, Orange-crowned is also a long-lingeng species in N.Y. County and in various adjacent sites.
Flocks of Common Grackles ruled the morning-flights -seen in their thousands- as seen from some vantage-points again on Thursday, with a fraction of those in Cedar Waxwing-numbers in passage yet still very good many-hundreds of the latter, along with many Red-winged Blackbirds on passage again, and a variety of other birds moving in Thursdays big winds, including modest flights noted for Brant and other waterfowl and for some Turkey Vulture migration which is ongoing.
American Woodcock continued to be found in Manhattan and elsewhere in this county. Some Laughing Gulls are continuing at various sites, more-so by now in the other isles -besides Manhattan- within this whole county.
Well over 100 species of wild, native birds were seen collectively on Thursday in, or passing thru, N.Y. County.
Good birding to all - and thanks to many for many finds, and alerts, and reports,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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