Date: 5/30/26 11:53 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - Sat., 5/30 - Dickcissel, etc.
… I been in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time …. Dr. John, the night-tripper orig from NOLA, etc, circa 1973 and on, sampled by Dre, turned inside out by Emerson Lake and Palmer and by many others. On Saturday, May 30, a brightly colored Dickcissel, perhaps a female, was photographed in the old driving range of Randalls Island, which is in New York County - within N.Y. City. Cliff Swallow was ongoing at Randalls, and there were sightings of a likely, or presumptive Alder Flycatcher by multiple observers there, all on Saturday. Other Empidonax-genus flycatchers found Saturday on Randalls also included Yellow-bellied, and still others. Randalls also continues as the most-reliable site in this county for Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, in proper season.
On Governors Island just south of Manhattan island, both in New York County, around 50-plus species of birds were seen including more than half-a-dozen migrant warbler species, including a late female Blackburnian. The Willow Flyctchers on Governors were continuing there, and among other birds, these seen strictly as migrants and not breeders, were Swainsons Thrush, and on Friday, White-crowned Sparrow. Common Terns are also regular at one site as well as offshore at and from Governors.
The past few days featured migrant birds on Roosevelt Island, another of the islands of New York County, with some warblers that do not breed there, as well as various birds that do, or might breed there.
There were still many species of migrants in multiple parks and greenspaces of Manhattan, with Inwood Hill and Riverside Parks among the many. At Central Park, still having large numbers of observers and photographers, at least 15 warbler species were found in that one park on Saturday, May 30, by the collective observers doing their varying walks from first-light to dusk, and in all sectors of that park. Many migrants besides warblers also were still being seen as well as plenty of the breeding species, which of course also may be breeding in multiple other parks.
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Plenty of migration happening from Saturday night on into wee-hours of Sunday, but a lot of the birds passing thru the NYC region were also going on and on, as many birds of many species will be driven to reach breeding-grounds now, wherever those sites are - a lot of bird migration is going on into Canada, just as it had, with a bit of emphasis more recently…
Good birding, and thanks to all those many keen, quiet, patient, listening and watchful observers and photographers for so many sightings, alerts, reports and a good month of May in all the ups or downs of weather around here.
