Central Park NYC - North End Monday, July 4, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the Conservatory Garden at 9am.
It seems that the moderate northwest winds overnight Thursday & Friday delivered another warbler: a Worm-eating Warbler we spotted at the Wildflower Meadow at around 8:15am. Worm-eating Warblers are notoriously early fall migrants. Our earliest date for a southbound bird is a Worm-eating Warbler we found at the Maintenance Field July 1, 2012. We saw two other species of Wood Warblers this morning: Northern Parula (female) around 8:20am at the Wildflower Meadow and later at the Loch, and Black-and-white Warbler (hatch-year male) at the Great Hill. Double-crested Cormorant - many flyovers Great Blue Heron - flyover Meer Great Egret - many flyovers Snowy Egret - flyover Herring Gull - flyovers Mourning Dove Chimney Swift - flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - male Wildflower Meadow Downy Woodpecker - male Wildflower Meadow, Loch Northern Flicker - male Wildflower Meadow Eastern Kingbird - female Wildflower Meadow Warbling Vireo - Conservatory Garden, Wildflower Meadow Red-eyed Vireo - singing Great Hill Blue Jay Crow species - over Wildflower Meadow (silent) Barn Swallow - overhead at the Meer White-breasted Nuthatch - adult male Wildflower Meadow House Wren - Green Bench Gray Catbird - several locations Northern Mockingbird - Wildflower Meadow Cedar Waxwing - 3 near Nutter's Battery, Green Bench, Wildflower Meadow Worm-eating Warbler - singing male Wildflower 8:15am (Bob & Deb before walk) Black-and-white Warbler - hatch-year male wooded slope of Great Hill Northern Parula - female Wildflower Meadow (Bob & Deb before walk), reappeared at the Loch (Gillian Henry, MD) White-throated Sparrow - molting into basic (winter) plumage Wildflower Meadow Song Sparrow - before walk Conservatory Garden 'Northern Cardinal - several locations Red-winged Blackbird - 3 males, female - Meer Common Grackle - various locations, adult with two noisy juveniles Meer Island Orchard Oriole - second-year male getting some red on the breast at the Loch (Wakako Matsushita) Baltimore Oriole - several locations House Finch - 3 near Nutter's Battery, male Wildflower Meadow No sign of the two Wood Thrushes that had been at the Loch until late June. 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/ --
