Date: 11/9/26 12:31 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Manhattan & Governors Island, NY County, NYC - 11/8 - Bullocks Oriole, Y.-br. Chat, many other migrants, etc.
New York County - in N.Y. City - including Manhattan and Governors Island for this report, with few Sunday reports for Randalls Island and no updates from Roosevelt Island both also in the county -
for Sunday, November 8th -
The Bullocks Oriole stayed on for a fifth day in a row on Sunday, at Morningside Park in Manhattan, still favoring the large elm and some other trees around the stone staircase at the south edge of the only pond in Morningside, and roughly adjacent to West 113 Street. One entrance to the park is by Manhattan Ave., at West 113th Street. Patience can be required at times in locating the Bullocks Oriole, but check for it still visiting the sap-wells from drillings made by sapsuckers, as has been its habit. Be aware that Baltimore Oriole is also a possibility anywhere in the area - in Manhattan, generally - as that latter species is quite regularly-annually found in Manhattan at least into December.
15 Forsters Terns were reported from a migration-watch made on Sunday at Governors Island, just south of Manhattan on Sunday, with at least 2 Forsters being seen over the Hudson River at lower Manhattan. Also noted from Governors Island were nearly sixty Purple Finches as well as triple-digits of American Goldfinches, and with some Pine Siskins also seen, plus American Pipit. Rusty Blackbird, with modest numbers of other blackbirds were also noted, as were Cedar Waxwings in the hundreds. Laughing Gulls were into the several-dozens at Governors. There were no re-finds of the Horned Grebe photographed by multiple observers on Saturday.
A Yellow-breasted Chat was ongoing at the narrow plaza between West 41st and West 42nd Streets and just west of Sixth Ave. in mid-Manhattan. That bird has been present for weeks by now.
A sky watch and Hudson river watch was conducted on Sunday by multiple observers using the Dyckman Street pier at the western terminus of that street in upper Manhattan, with many birds on the move - more than 30,000 migrants were noted, over half of those being Common Grackles, and with thousands of Red-winged Blackbirds in the migratory movement as well.
At least 4 Eastern Bluebirds were also noticed as were Pine Siskin, Purple Finches, and American Pipit, plus a meadowlark, which by likelihood would be Eastern. Also seen were many hundreds of Brown-headed Cowbirds and also 2,000 or more unidentified-Blackbird species, which is to say birds in the Icteridae. Thousands of unidentified passerine-type birds also moved thru. A few Laughing Gulls and just one Common Loon were also among the many other birds noted.
While ten Black Vultures were seen from this viewpoint, that species is very regular by watching the skyline over the opposite side of the river, that is over northeast Bergen County, New Jersey where Black Vulture is extremely regular, and might be about year-round. Raptors flying included Red-shouldered Hawk.
A Black-throated Green Warbler at Central Park on Saturday was confirmed as that species. Of course any warblers, and particularly any thought to be that species, ought to be scrutinized and ideally, photographed or video-audio recorded so as to confirm species, since a possibility exists for rarer sister-species from the west of N. America.
Other warbler sightings by now have been getting fewer, but some were still around to Sunday, and more species of warblers could still turn up this year - with, for example a reliable recent report from Staten Island -Richmond County- N.Y. City of MacGillivrays Warbler, from Richard Veit. Keep that camera, or at least phone, handy for video-audio or photos of birds that appear to be uncommon or rare.
Many other birds are still being seen in the county, with lingerers at Central Park and elsewhere including American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Wood, Ruddy, and American Black Ducks, N. Shovelers, Hooded Mergansers, possible other mergansers - Common or Red-breasted Merganser may still be around, and Buffleheads more generally, plus in places other-than Central Parks waters, Brant in increased numbers.
Good birding, with thanks to hundreds of observers and photographers for sightings, alerts, and many reports.
