Date: 9/14/26 12:59 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - 9/13 - Lark Sparrow, other migrants, rarity-reports, etc.
New York County -in N.Y. City- including Governors, Randalls, Roosevelt, and Manhattan islands and the adjacent skies and waters -
Sunday, September 13th -
A Lark Sparrow was found, sometimes associating with house sparrows, on Governors Island, on Sunday, with multiple observers by days end. One report suggesting that the W. Kingbird was seen on Sunday was a data-entry error in that the date was meant to be for Sat., 9-12, and there were apparently no sightings of the rare kingbird from Sunday - the same date-entry error also occurred for a Blue Grosbeak not reported for Sunday, only Sat., 9-12. - - No one was observing any migrant birds on Governors Island at after-midnight of 9-13, that report was meant to be for Saturday during daylight. - -
A report of Clapper Rail from Governors Island late Sunday would constitute a rare species for this county, apparently heard in very late day near the Lima pier at the west-sw edge of the island. Also noted on Governors early on Sunday, was a larger than average Killdeer movement, over 50 individuals there, as well as a small assortment of other shorebirds, none new to the season here. Other locations in the county seemed not to produce much of a shorebird-drop, and overall it was not easy to discern that some birds did get put down from the rains that started small at sunrise, only later growing in intensity but not really a storm as such, and an extremely slow moving trailing front of drier cooler air that was still partly as far west as eastern Ohio and western PA late in the day Sunday…
An adult Dickcissel was reported on Sunday, with some details, from Rockefeller Park which -in Manhattan- is a short way southwest of the western terminus of Chambers Street in lower Manhattan. In scattered locations in the county, perhaps most of all in the southern parts of it, were pockets of migrants and somewhat notable in some of the pockets of birds were Blackpoll Warblers in the multiple, although far from any major fallout of that species. In many areas such as Central Park and some other parks, it seemed that some birds were simply lingering from the prior day or days. Up to 19 species of migratory warblers were found at Central Park, with a variety of other typical migrants also ongoing.
One correction for the 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers seen by multiple observers, one very well photographed, at Central Park on Saturday, 9-12 is that one of the two was in adult plumage, and may have flown towards the northern half of that park, whereas the other individual was a first-fall plumaged bird lacking the full red hood of the adult. Either, or both of these woodpeckers might be lingering in that park.
On Sat., 9-12 one species was noted having perhaps just arrived to the county and in Central Park, Brown Creeper. A Wild Turkey persists at the southern tip of Manhattan, and in multiple locations of the county this month and in recent days have been Monk Parakeets, which are an extant non-native but long established breeding species in the NYC region, and for some areas, a bit beyond also.
