Central Park NYC Thursday May 26, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am.
Some birds seen by Bob at the Reservoir before the walk are included in the list. Canada Goose - 2 Turtle Pond Gadwall - male Reservoir Mallard - female with 14 ducklings Turtle Pond, female with one duckling Upper Lobe Double-crested Cormorant - at least 30 Reservoir, flyovers in the Ramble Great Egret - 5 landing briefly and taking off Reservoir Black-crowned Night-Heron - flovers Reservoir Red-tailed Hawk - over west side Spotted Sandpiper - Reservoir, Upper Lobe Herring Gull - flyover Great Black-backed Gull - Reservoir Black-billed Cuckoo - Turtle Pond Dock (Bruno Boni) Chimney Swift - around 10 gathering nesting material Belvedere Castle Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Eastern-wood-Pewee - 3 total - heard at Reservoir, seen Humming Tombstone & in the Ramble Empidonax Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird - Turtle Pond Red-eyed Vireo - 50+ (everywhere) Blue Jay - multiple locations Barn Swallows - 4 flying under the Turtle Pond Dock Black-capped Chickadee - 1 Gill Overlook Swainson's Thrush - 2 Ramble Gray-cheeked Thrush - Shakespeare Garden (before walk - Bob with Rikki Ravitz), Upper Lobe (Mayra Cruz) Gray Catbird - many Cedar Waxwings - feeding on shadbush berries at Weather Station, Dock on Turtle Pond, Warbler Rock, etc. Northern Waterthrush - Upper Lobe (Tom Socci) Mourning Warbler - male Upper Lobe, male Swampy Pin Oak Common Yellowthroat - males & females American Redstart - total 20 (adult males, females, immature males) Northern Parula - less than 5 all female - Belvedere Castle, etc. Magnolia Warbler - less than 10 (adult males, females, and immatures) Blackburnian Warbler - female Upper Lobe Yellow Warbler - 3 adult males, 7 females Blackpoll Warbler - around 25 (adult males & females) Black-throated Blue Warbler - female Upper Lobe Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 females (SW Reservoir & Shakespeare Garden) Canada Warbler - a few - adult male at the Upper Lobe, the Point (Peter Haskel) Wilson's Warbler - female Mugger's Woods (Noa Cruz), Shakespeare Garden (Noa Cruz) Red-winged Blackbird - male Upper Lobe Brown-headed Cowbird - chez Armando Common Grackle - common - Turtle Pond, etc. Baltimore Oriole - pairs throughout the Ramble 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/ --