Date: 11/9/26 6:46 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC - 11/9 - Bullock’s Oriole, Black Scoters, Bonapartes Gulls, etc.
Manhattan, N.Y. City -
Monday, November 9th -
The younger male Bullocks Oriole was ongoing at Morningside Park in Manhattan on Monday, having been viewed by more than 800 birders and photographers by then, often in the same area, around the Morningside pond south side wide stone staircase that ascends from the area of the pond, with the Oriole using sapsucker-wells which can have not just possibly-flowing sap, but attract small insects as well for further nutritional value to the birds which may visit such sapsucker-drillings. The area referred to us close to an entrance of the park at West 113th Street off Morningside Ave., and from that entrance coming west into the park, the small pond is very evident as is the staircase at the ponds south side.
Up to 34 Black Scoters were seen and photographed, with multiple observers of most of these on-over the Hudson River off the northern part of Manhattan, with other sightings from Dyckman Street pier including 2 Bonapartes Gulls, and a fairly modest flight of various other species including Blackbird-flocks with Common Grackles predominant.
Black-and-white Warblers have appeared in a number of Manhattan locations including two in separate areas of Central Park on Monday. Other warbler species have been seen with numbers of this family of birds having decreased markedly in the past week. However there may be lingerers or further new arrivals in this group of migrants.
