I entered the park at 90th St and Central Park West around 8:40AM and
walked south under the trees on the path between the running path and
the Bridal Path. Birds were singing and flitting through those trees in
impressive numbers. Not very far down, at about the level of 88th
Street, I spotted, in a tree, a stunning male Mourning Warbler. He was
moving pretty quickly, and I couldn't stay with him for very long,
although I got superb looks at him. I continued wandering leisurely
south, through the Pinetum, to Turtle Pond, and up to the Castle via
Shakespeare Garden, where I heard a Swainson's Thrush singing
repeatedly. I have rarely heard them sing in Central Park. From there, I
headed to the Ramble, where I spent some time birding with Alice and
Naomi Deutsch. On my way back to 90th Street, around 1PM, on the same
path where I started, there were still quite a few warblers and vireos.
Birds I saw included:
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Egret (The Point)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Oven)
Gadwall (2m, Reservoir)
Mallard
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker (Ramble)
Eastern Wood-Pewee (heard several)
Empidonax Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Warbling Vireo (heard)
Red-eyed Vireo (many seen and heard)
Blue Jay
Swainson's Thrush (multiple, with at least one singing away in
Shakespeare Garden)
American Robin
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler (many)
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler (several)
Blackpoll Warbler (multiple)
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush (several)
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler (multiple)
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Baltimore Oriole
House Sparrow
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