Date: 5/3/26 11:54 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC - to Sun., May 3rd- Y.-br. Chat, Kentucky W. (4th day in C.P.), etc.
Manhattan, N.Y. City - thru Sunday, May 3rd -
A Yellow-breasted Chat was found by Julia Price at Fort Tryon Park on Sunday, May 3rd, later seen by multiple observers and further photographed. A first of the year for all New York County.
At Central Park, in Manhattan, and making for the completion to 30 warbler species seen -on one day- on Saturday in that park by the collective of observers and photographers, a Kentucky Warbler was again present on Sunday in the same areas of The Ramble of Central Park as on all the prior days since April 30, and on Sunday rather nicely photographed by some of the watchers, in the sloping woods areas near the northwest arm of The Lake, and -for Sunday alone- comprising one of at least 27 species of warblers in that park on the one day.
We also await the -possible- confirmations for multiple reports of Yellow-throated Warblers, a species which certainly made strong arrivals in the city and wider region over recent weeks, and, to most local birders surprise would be a -potential- scarce breeder in N.Y. City, although that has not been observed thus far!
Numbers of neotropical-wintering migrants have been fair to good in Manhattan and including thru the whole of Central Park, with the typically-more numerous species of late April and beginning of May in good numbers, and only some species a bit more typical - from past local phenology in spring - of mid-May, still fairly low for a modest number of those later-arriving species. The collective of many hundreds of observers out in all of Manhattan and, more than any other single site, out in Central Park each day in this season from first-light into dusk - collectively - have been finding often very good numbers of plenty of our many dozens of now-fully-expected seasonal migrant birds. For some of the migrant species, numbers have been excellent for days, or even for weeks, and especially so in Central Park. A good contender in recent days is also Inwood Hill Park, with a great influx of new migrants so far this month of May.
A belated confirmation for an unusual-for-situational-sighting of Bonapartes Gull, seen flying past The Pool In Central Park on April 30, perhaps past the C.P. Reservoir but not re-found there nor seen again later, the keen observer experienced with the species, and aware of the uncommoness of the in-flight sighting away from virtually the only place in Central Park where past sightings of Bonapartes Gulls have been made. The date is very slightly late for here, but virtually any gull species is possible into at least early May in the region.
