Central Park NYC Thursday June 2, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am.
Includes birds seen by Bob at the Reservoir before the walk. Canada Goose - pair Turtle Pond, several Reservoir Mallard - around 10 Turtle Pond Common Loon - flyover Great Lawn Double-crested Cormorant - around 15 Reservoir Black-crowned Night-Heron - 4 flyovers, 1 Upper Lobe (spotted by Dorothy Lourdou) Ring-billed Gull - 2 Reservoir Herring Gull - around 20 Reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - around 10 Reservoir Mourning Dove - pair Shakespeare Garden Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Humming Tombstone (spotted by Jeff Ward) Chimney Swift - flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Empidonax Flycatcher - 3 total - Upper Lobe (possible Acadian), Oven, Summer House Great Crested Flycatcher - Humming Tombstone Eastern Kingbird - nest at Turtle Pond, pair near Bow Bridge Warbling Vireo - pair, Maintenance Field, pair Turtle Pond Red-eyed Vireo - 5 including pair in Mugger's Woods Black-capped Chickadee - Laura reports one fledgling from Mugger's Woods pair Tufted Titmouse - heard Mugger's Woods House Wren - Mugger's Woods near Stone Arch American Robin Gray Catbird - many Cedar Waxwing - 2 King of Poland Black-and-white Warbler - female Upper Lobe Mourning Warbler - singing male Upper Lobe American Redstart - 3 (Bob before walk - King of Poland, Castle, and Turtle Pond) Magnolia Warbler - Castle, Humming Tombstone Blackpoll Warbler - heard (Bob before walk - Locust Grove) Eastern Towhee - singing male Warbler Rock Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird - male Turtle Pond, male displaying at Castle Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird - chased away from Baltimore Oriole nest at Maintenance Field by female oriole Baltimore Oriole - young male bathing at Gill Overlook, others House Finch - at least 10 including adult males, adult females and fledglings 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/ --
