Date: 11/12/25 5:21 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County - Tues., 11/11 - Bonapartes Gulls, C-col. Sparrow, etc.
New York County -in N.Y. City- including Roosevelt Island, Governors Island, Randalls Island, and Manhattan island and the adjacent waters and skies above -
thru Veterans Day Tuesday, November 11th -
A Clay-colored Sparrow was found and also photographed at Roosevelt Island, in the fields south of Cornell Tech - there were also other birds of note including American Wigeon off in the East River, a part of which separates Roosevelt from Manhattan island. Some of the other sightings there on Tuesday included American Woodcock, Merlin and American Kestrel, a few Ruby-crowned Kinglets and Palm Warblers, as well as an assortment of other mostly-expected species, with some Laughing Gulls off the island for a time, and Common Ravens in the area.
Over on Governors Island, a bit farther south, the southernmost island of N.Y. County, at least 11 Bonapartes Gulls were seen and photographed in the N.Y. harbor area, noted fairly early in the day on Tuesday. At times including later in the day, light to moderate snow-flurries were noticed by many in almost all areas of the county.
At least several American Woodcock were seen on Governors Island, as were a few Laughing Gulls and an assortment of other seasonally-expected species. In a few locations from the northern part of the county to the southernmost, E. Phoebes were still being seen, and others of that species could well be around, or soon to pass thru. At least to Monday, Nov. 10th, Blue-headed Vireo was still around but by now in very-diminished numbers.
Six Long-tailed Ducks were noticed on the Hudson River off northern Manhattan, on Tuesday. This is a regular but not-common species for some of the waters around the county, and we also might start to keep a watch for some other winter-waterfowl that could be arriving at any time of this late-autumn.
In the area of midtown-Manhattans Museum of Modern Art, a Scarlet Tanager was seen and photographed up on a terrace on Tuesday. This is a species that very-rarely has been seen in this county into December - even very-scarcely to CBC periods here. Most of these have of course moved far-south by now. It is good for any bird thought to be a tanager to get photographed or video-documented by observers, and a few species besides Scarlet are in the realm of possibility at this time of year among tanager-species.
A N. Waterthrush was ongoing at Central Park, a very long-lingering bird there, and yet still at least a month or more away from being a late-date for this species in either that park, or for the overall county. Other warbler sightings were minimized and certainly some of these will have moved on in recent days. However some hardier individuals are also likely to be noticed in coming days, and weeks, around here.
Sparrow diversity appeared to be dropping-off a bit, however some birds are surely still lurking in a variety of locations in the county. A White-crowned Sparrow in a plaza-planter in midtown was an example of one such, on Tuesday. As is usual for this county, particularly for Manhattan island, many White-throated Sparrows are in-place for possibly all of the winter, and in hundreds of greenspaces, in addition to being in all of the larger parks. Juncos of the expected type also are fairly numerous and widespread, for just now.
Nice numbers of Wood Ducks, Hooded Mergansers, and other seasonal duckage continue on at Central Park, there in a number of waterbodies spread around that park. Some of all these waterfowl are also showing in other sites across the county. Also for example, American Coots have also shown in additional locations besides in Central Park recently.
Thanks to many hardy observers, some out in snow-flurries, wind, and all the varying weather of recent, for sightings, alerts, and reports with non-x birding-apps and including many reports in eBird, with the Macaulay Library for media.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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