Date: 10/21/25 6:25 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - thru 10/21 - Clay-col. + Vesper Sparrows, 17+ Warbler spp., etc.
New York County, in N.Y. City, including Manhattan, Randalls, Governors and Roosevelt Islands and the adjacent waters and skies-above - into Tuesday, October 21st -
For Tuesday, Clay-colored Sparrows were showing in at least 2 locations in the county, at Randalls Island where Vesper Sparrow also was still being found, and Clay-colored Sparrow also found and photographed at the pier-park near Gansevoort Street on the Hudson River in lower Manhattan. Also noted from Randalls Island again was Spotted Sandpiper. A Marsh Wren has been a regular sighting at the Gansevoort peninsula -near that street, as noted in this paragraph- thru Tuesday, 10-21, a bird that seems to have been regular there for some time by now. The habitat at that latter location has been looking good to attract still more of less-common birds at times in migration-periods.
A Chestnut-sided Warbler was photographed at Battery Park on Monday, Oct. 20th, getting a bit late for that species in N.Y. A Wood Thrush was seen and photographed at Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday. That species has rather-rarely even been found in Manhattan in mid-winter, although it is solely the Hermit Thrush which is a typical overwinterer in this area, amongst all of the brown-backed-types of thrushes. A very few -documented- Swainsons Thrushes and also Gray-cheeked Thrush were still being found in a few locations into Tuesday. A fall-plumaged Scarlet Tanager was photographed in Washington Square Park on Tuesday, and that species has been found in a few additional locations this week.
Even into Tuesday, at least 17 species of warblers were being found in N.Y. County, and of those, at least 15 species were seen by many observers collectively in Central Park. Those latter sightings included multiples of N. Waterthrush, American Redstart, Tennessee, Magnolia, Cape May, Bay-breasted, Wilsons, Black-and-white, and the rest of varied warbler species in Central Park, as well as many of these species also showing in multiple other locations around the county, some in small parks, gardens, and other greenspaces. The only moderately-numerous warblers remaining in the county by now are Palm and Myrtle-form of Yellow-rumped Warblers.
A very few Chimney Swifts were still pushing thru into Tuesday, Oct. 21st and the same was so for Ruby-throated Hummingbirds - one of the latter was also still lingering in the Shakespeare Garden of Central Park thru Tuesday.
At least a few Baltimore Orioles were showing in a number of Manhattan locations thru Tuesday, one that has been seen by many, many dozens of observers still lingered by the elms and their sapsucker-drillings and sap-wells, at the Pinetum of Central Park. That area has also had various other birds visit some sap-wells and sapsucker-drillings at times in recent days, some of the species include Cape May and other warblers. That same sap-well-sipping-feeding is seen in many other places all around Manhattan in cool to colder weather and occasionally is supportive of a vagrant-type bird in some odd locations, one such species-example being Western Tanagers that have been found in places that wintering Sapsuckders are also working, over the many past years and decades. Some additional Baltimore Orioles have been occurring in at least several areas of Central Park, and also in a few additional parks, perhaps in more locations than is realized. Baltimore Oriole is a species that sometimes successfully overwinters in the region, and specifically so in Manhattan, although rare as an overwintering species.
Laughing Gull has continued to be seen at the Central Park reservoir, and in greater but modest numbers of that species in other parts of N.Y. County into this week. Red-throated Loon has occurred in the county at least as a fly-by, as have numbers of Common Loon, in the past week. Central Park in particular continued to play the host to at least 9 Wood Ducks into Tuesday. Also ongoing at Central Park were Green-winged Teals, Ruddy Ducks, Northern Shovelers and other waterfowl as in recent days or weeks. Not noted in these reports much, if at all lately, Great Cormorants have been returning in the county, and are as-usual here, far less-common than Double-crested Cormorants and far less-broadly distributed.
Pine Siskin and Purple Finch were again moving thru on Tuesday, albeit possibly in minimal numbers, with some of each stopping in at Central Park at times - these birds may or may not be lingering all that long yet, and some are certainly just fly-bys, so far in this mid-autumn. The only 2 Vireo species still being seen and quickly-confirmed by reviewers are Red-eyed Vireo in dwindling numbers and the expected-now Blue-headed Vireos. A recent -report- for White-eyed Vireo at Central Park on Sunday was still not-confirmed in review as of Tuesday night.
Red-breasted Nuthatch numbers have slightly-increased this week, with some small areas in some parks having had multiples in view at once. A Connecticut Warbler was found at the Chelsea Piers Park along the Hudson River greenway north of West 23rd St. on Sunday, 10-19. An Orange-crowned Warbler was found at Battery Park on Monday, 10-20.
A female Wild Turkey also has continued on at Battery Park, where it has lingered for months. The saga of the Monks - Monk Parakeets in Manhattan - continues with a photographed-sighting from the northern-most tip of Manhattan on Tuesday, Oct. 21st.
A confirmed-in-eBird report came in for the Virginia Rail still seen at Number Three Bryant Park plaza, which is west of Sixth Avenue in mid-Manhattan between 42nd and 41st Streets, on Sunday, Oct. 19th.
A great many species of birds were found and reported by and for multiple guided not-for-profit bird-walks on Tuesday, in part within Central Park, and for non-profit organizations and institutions with sound science, conservation, education and natural diversity as a part of their ideals, as well as sightings by many independent observers out and about in many, many locations.
Good birding - and thanks always to the many keen, quiet, courteous observers and photographers for finds, alerts, and regular reports of birds all-around via non-x apps, and as-always via eBird with the Macaulay Library for media.
Tom Fiore,
manhattan
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