Central Park NYC Sunday May 29, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am.
Canada Goose - pair with brood of 6 Lake near Bethesda Fountain Gadwall - pair Turtle Pond Mallard - many half-grown ducklings Turtle Pond Double-crested Cormorant - flyover Great Egret - flyover Black-crowned Night-Heron - adult Upper Lobe (Andrea Hessel) Red-tailed Hawk - flyover Herring Gull - flyover Mourning Dove Chimney Swift - 2 over Maintenance Field Ruby-throated Hummingbird - male top of Ginkgo Upper Lobe Lawn (Deb), the Point (David & Matthew) Red-bellied Woodpecker - female Warbler Rock Downy Woodpecker - heard Azalea Pond (Deb before walk) Eastern Wood-Pewee - King of Poland/Castle Walk, Tupelo Field (landing on fence) Empidonax Flycatcher - probable Willow/Alder King of Poland/Castle Walk, Point Great Crested Flycatcher - Tupelo Field Eastern Kingbird - pair Turtle Pond, Warbler Rock, Warbler Rock, carrying food foot of Cherry Hill (Deb before walk) Warbling Vireo - King of Poland, Maintenance Field Red-eyed Vireo - Castle Walk, King of Poland, Maintenance Field, Mugger's Woods Barn Swallow - Turtle Pond flying very close to dock Black-capped Chickadee - Tupelo Field House Wren - singing next to Cheery stub Mugger's Woods American Robin - nests here & there Gray Catbird - various locations Cedar Waxwing - Delacorte Common Yellowthroat - female Point American Redstart - immature male Castle Walk, Mugger's Woods, immature male Oven, immature male Point Magnolia Warbler - Upper Lobe Yellow Warbler - female Castle Walk Chestnut-sided Warbler - female Castle Walk Blackpoll Warbler - male & singing bird that appeared to be female Shakespeare Garden, male Point Canada Warbler - south of Reservoir (British birders David & Matthew before walk) Eastern Towhee - male singing SE of Maintenance Field White-throated Sparrow - Laupot Bridge (Deb before walk) Red-winged Blackbird - singing male Turtle Pond Common Grackle - fighting with Eastern Kingbird at Turtle Pond Baltimore Oriole - still occupying nest in London Plane Maintenance Field, young female Upper Lobe, Male & female Warbler Rock House Finch - female Castle Walk American Goldfinch - 2 Castle Walk, 1 Humming Tombstone David Wood, one of the British birders on our walk today, saw and photographed a Field Sparrow at the Great Hill Saturday afternoon (5/28). 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/ --