Central Park NYC Monday May 9, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walks starting from Strawberry Fields at 8am & 9am until around noon.
Highlights included 20 species of Wood Warblers, 4 Vireos, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, and a perched Chimney Swift. Great Blue Heron - 3 flyovers Strawberry Fields Great Egret - Turtle Pond Northern Harrier - female or immature flyover Strawberry Fields Red-tailed Hawk - pair west side Yellow-billed cuckoo - Azalea Pond Chimney Swift - 20-25 overhead plus one perched Yellow-throated Vireo - 2 Blue-headed Vireo - 5 to 7 Warbling Vireo - acting territorial, chasing other birds Red-eyed Vireo - 2 Veery Hermit Thrush Wood thrush - singing in places Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Gray Catbird Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush - Upper Lobe Black-and-white Warbler - 7 Nashville Warbler - 1 SE Turtle Pond (Castle Walk) Common Yellowthroat- male & female Hooded Warbler - male Humming Tombstone (spotted by Jeffrey Michael Ward) American Redstart - 6 Cape May Warbler - Castle Walk Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler - near Sparrow Rock (after walk - Deb) Blackburnian Warbler - 3 total, the first at the Upper Lobe (spotted by Mary Logan) Yellow Warbler - males & females in 50/50 ratio Chestnut-sided Warbler - 5 Black-throated Blue Warbler - one or two females, 4 males Palm Warbler - the Point (Emmet Logan) Yellow-rumped Warbler Prairie Warbler - Oven Black-throated Green Warbler - many in various locations Canada Warbler - the Point Wilson's Warbler - the Point Scarlet Tanager - 3 Eastern Towhee - 1 Chipping Sparrow - 2 White-crowned Sparrow - Fruited Plain (lawn n. of Upper Lobe) White-throated Sparrow Orchard Oriole - adult male Humming Tombstone Baltimore Oriole - many The usual residents: American Robin, Mourning Dove, Red-winged Blackbird, Common Grackle, Tufted Titmouse, etc. At the south end of the park in late afternoon: the Spotted Sandpiper continued at the mudflat north of the Pond with a Black-crowned Night-Heron perched at the Pond proper. I also paid a visit to the Clinton Cove Seaside Sparrow (only able to find one of them) but nice to see a Savannah Sparrow on the lawn nearby. Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
