Central Park NYC Tuesday May 17, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am
Highlight: 19 species of wood warblers. Gadwall - pair Turtle Pond Bufflehead - male Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - immatures & adults Reservoir Great Egret - Turtle pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 Lake, 1 Turtle Pond - all adults Red-tailed Hawk - adult Herring Gull - flyovers Mourning Dove - some juveniles Chimney Swift - flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - pairs Downy Woodpecker - male & female Summer House Olive-sided Flycatcher - Weather Station Circle (Noa & Mayra Cruz) Empidonax Flycatcher - Warbler Rock Eastern Kingbird - Warbler Rock Yellow-throated Vireo - east side of Ramble Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Warbling Vireo - pairs Red-eyed Vireo - several American Crow - 2 flyovers Blue Jay Barn Swallow - flyovers Black-capped Chickadee - bathing at Oven White-breasted Nuthatch - pair Summer House House Wren - Shakespeare Garden Veery - East of Warbler Rock Swainson's Thrush - 5 Wood Thrush - 3 singing in Ramble American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Cedar Waxwing - in Tuliptree Captain's Bench (Noa Cruz) Ovenbird - 5 Northern Waterthrush - at least 4 - Oven, Upper Lobe, Shakespeare Garden, Turtle Pond, etc. Black-and-white Warbler - 1 male, 10 females Common Yellowthroat - 10 (males & females 50/50) American Redstart - 5 males, 15 females, 2 or 3 s econd-year males Cape May Warbler - 5 (1 adult male, 4 females) SW Reservoir, Captain's Bench, Summer House, Oven (ad male), etc. Northern Parula - 25+ more females than males Magnolia Warbler - 50+ males & females both adults and second-year (first-cycle) birds Bay-breasted Warbler - 5 - 2 males and 1 female Turtle Pond Dock (with Janet Wooten & Ed Gaillard), female Mugger's Woods, female SW Reservoir Blackburnian Warbler - 8 total - 5 males, 3 females - Shakespeare Garden, Weather Station, Summer House, Point, etc. Yellow Warbler - not many 5 total (2 males, 3 females) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 10 (3 of them adult males) Blackpoll Warbler - 8 (5 males, 3 females) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 males, 4 females Yellow-rumped Warbler - 6 all females Prairie Warbler - 2 females (Summer house and Shakespeare Garden Overlook) Black-throated Green Warbler - 4 - 2 adult males, 2 females (Ramble) Canada Warbler - 4 adult males (3 on the Point, 1 in the Ramble) Wilson's Warbler - 4 all adult males (Upper Lobe, Point, Oven, etc.) Eastern Tohwee - male singing east of feeders Lincoln's Sparrow - Shakespeare Garden Swamp Sparrow - Azalea Pond Scarlet Tanager - female Captain's Bench Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak - males calling Red-winged Blackbird - Oven, Turtle Pond Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 males Chez Armando Baltimore Oriole - new nest at Turtle Pond House Finch - cypress at Turtle Pond Dock 3 Indigo Buntings in Strawberry Fields and an Eastern Wood-Pewee were inadvertently omitted from yesterday's (5/16/16) list. 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/ --
