Date: 9/16/26 2:37 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - to 9/15 - Blue Grosbeak & many other migrants
New York County -in N.Y. City- including Manhattan, Governors, Randalls, and Roosevelt islands and the adjacent waters and sky -
thru Tuesday, September 15th -
A Blue Grosbeak in female-like plumage was lingering on at Governors Island thru Tuesday, and some Bobolinks were also still being found there, as were many other migrants. A report came on Monday, 9-14 from the general vicinity of Governors Island and-or the ferry dock area at the south tip of Manhattan for a Pied-billed Grebe, with no further details. Governors has been receiving many migrants this month, and while some of course have moved on, some are, or could still be, lingering on that island. At least 24 species of warblers have occurred there so far this month and some additions to the list of warblers are still very possible.
Going back to the night of Sept. 11 and into the early morning dark hours of Sept. 12, the team of keen observers at the 9-11 memorial Tribute in Light who monitor and record migrants coming into the powerful light beams on just that one night found many warblers, as is typical with strong migrations here seen in most years on or around those dates. Among the many warblers that could be identified, including from photos taken during that night this year, Golden-winged and Connecticut Warblers were each noted, along with a wide diversity of other species. It is certainly possible that other Connecticut Warblers have passed thru this county in their often-skulking way, as stopovers in potentially any place in this county. That species has in past years in fall migration turned up in gardens, churchyards open to the public, various other small greenspaces, and of course in parks large and small and various other kinds of locations in the county.
At Central Park, an American Wigeon as well as Green-winged Teal were continuing thru Tuesday. Double-digit numbers of N. Shovelers also remain in Central and may increase further fairly soon. Also seen again in that park on Tuesday, Philadelphia Vireo which is having a fairly good fall by numbers of well-documented observations in this county.
Some shorebirds persist including Spotted and Solitary Sandpipers in multiple locations including at Central Park, while elsewhere are lowered numbers of Least, and far fewer of Semipalmated Sandpipers. Killdeer also continue in locations where they are regular.
Common Tern, diminished in numbers by now, were still being found off lower Manhattan at the Hudson River Piers as well as around N.Y. Harbor including being noted from Governors Island but less-frequently than in the earlier part of this month. At Randalls Island Yellow-crowned Night Heron was still to be seen to Tuesday. Black-crowned Night Herons are far more widespread in this county. Green Herons are ongoing for now in multiple locations, and both Snowy and Great Egrets were also still being seen.
Very modest signals of the approach of a change in season, some additional Brown Creepers have been turning up this week, and some White-throated Sparrows, in very modest numbers may be turning up in areas where none were as little as one week prior, and to some extent the same is so for Lincolns Sparrows, while Red-breasted Nuthatches - not really indicative of the season, however - are becoming more widely-noticed in the county, and in some locations such as Central Park, are seen daily by some among the hundreds and hundreds of weekly observers in that park.
Thanks to many hundreds of observers and photographers out and about thru this county at varied times and many locations, for so many sightings, alerts, and reports.
