Date: 7/26/26 12:30 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] 7/26 Manhattan, NYC birds… & passing of ornithologist Guy McCaskie
Another passage, from the farthest west of the 48 contiguous U.S, states, a tremendous force in American birding and particularly so in his chosen home after leaving Scotland so long ago, Guy McCaskie of California very recently died, just shy of his 90th birthday. Almost anyone who went seeking birds in that state in the past 60 years has a debt to Mr. McCaskie, who helped bring birding in America, and especially in California, into the modern era, on multiple levels. His influences in birding are spread wide, deep, and through time around this country. Those birders who may have spent any time in southern California, and especially in and around the inland Salton Sea, have been in a special part of the world where Guy McCaskie gave much of his time, skill, and devotion - and in California overall, many are the first state records with his imprint, discovered and documented, always thorough and complete documentation of avian occurrences. It is fitting that his ashes are to be ceremonially spread in part at the great Salton Sea. R.I.P. to a unique ornithologist.
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Manhattan, N.Y. City with notes from Central Park - 2 Cerulean Warblers, etc.
to Sunday, July 26 -
At Central Park, the Ramble was continuing to host not just one, but a fully-confirmed two Cerulean Warblers in differing plumage, one very much a first-fall-aged individual - seen and photographed by many many dozens of observers. It was already being noted that two Ceruleans were present by Saturday, July 25. Also, many of the more than ten other warbler species are ongoing in Central Park with up to twelve total warbler species for Manhattan on this Sunday.
Some migrant warblers are showing in a number of parks in Manhattan as well as other islands of N.Y. County, and also increasing lately are hummingbirds on the move, with all thus far identified as Ruby-throated, of course the default-species in this period of the year. A modest variety of migrants other than warblers are starting to move as noted from this county, all while great migrations have been occurring all around the region, perhaps most obviously in the array of shorebirds each day lately is providing where habitat is, and the more so where birders have gathered to observe.
