Date: 6/5/26 3:32 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC - Fri., June 5 - 12+ warbler spp., and earlier sightings
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - Friday, June 5th -
At least 12 species of migratory American-hemisphere warblers were found in Central Park on Friday, all species seen by observers on independent walks and-or with not-for-profit guided bird walk groups. Among these warblers, Mourning Warbler and Bay-breasted Warbler were seen by multiple observers and photographers both very early and later in the day Friday. Just 3 days prior on Tues., June 2, there were still up to 20 species of warblers in this one park, with some slightly-late or considered straggling, in the typical migration phenologies of their species. Blackpoll Warbler, American Redstart, and to a lesser extent, Common Yellowthroat are among the most numerous of ongoing warblers, while species such as Mourning often escape detection, not at all rare, just less amenable to fast sighting and ID by comparison to many other warblers, when-if not heard singing.
Recent sightings in and over Central Park in this week after Monday have included Common Nighthawks, Ruby-throated Hummingbird - the latter to Friday including a male at the north end of the park, Osprey every day in the air over Central, especially so at the north half of the park, the Eastern Wood-Pewees that are daily and of which some will stay for breeding in the park, the continuing pair of Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, the great numbers of Cedar Waxwings each day, some setting up as breeders and some still moving thru, along with the 60 or more other species of wild and free-flying birds in and over the park since Tuesday, being seen by hundreds of keen, patient, quiet observers and photographers. ‘
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One of the uncommon finds going into the month of June was an ongoing Red-breasted Merganser in the Spuyten Duyvil Creek, which separates northernmost Manhattan from the western Bronx in N.Y. City. Other birds of various sorts all added up to more than 100 species in Manhattan and slightly more than that for all ofd N.Y. County so far in June.
