Slow, slower, slowest

Princeton, Wednesday was slow but with two first-of-year birds for me (the vireos) and most of the species were singing:

House Wren
Yellow-throated Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Northern Parula
Common Yellowthroat
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Baltimore Oriole

Princeton, Thursday was quieter but with more wandering around I actually did a little better than Wednesday, finding another two grosbeaks and a singing male Scarlet Tanager.

Wood Thrush (heard)

House Wren
Warbling Vireo
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Ovenbird (heard)
Common Yellowthroat
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Baltimore Oriole

Central Park, Friday, was glacially slow, just as it was reported to be on Thursday:

Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Palm Warbler
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat (probable)
Eastern Towhee

and in fact the short species list above by no means gives an accurate picture of just how eerily silent the whole experience was, standing in the Ramble and not being able to hear a single warbler for much of the time.  ON MAY THIRD.

While much of the blame goes to the persistent weather system delivering easterlies to the NYC/NJ area, I was still assuming that at least some species would move out of sheer necessity and also because the weather remains reasonably warm.  Possibly the birds are moving past in the interior.