Central Park NYC Sunday July 10, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights today included nine individuals of four species of Wood Warblers: Prairie Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler, and six Black-and-white Warbler, plus some breeding birds. Birds at the Reservoir seen by Deb before the walk. Canada Goose - 33 Reservoir, 1 Turtle Pond Gadwall - pair Turtle Pond, 3 Reservoir Mallard - Turtle Pond including hen with 3 half-grown ducklings & a new brood Mourning Dove - several locations Chimney Swift - flyovers Ring-billed Gull - 1 adult Reservoir Herring Gull - 1 adult Reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - 1 adult Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - at least 25 Reservoir & flyovers Great Egret - Turtle Pond & Reservoir Red-bellied Woodpecker - Oven, Shakespeare Garden & Azalea Pond Downy Woodpecker - 2 Weather Station, Indian Cave Northern Flicker - Tupelo/Iphigene's Walk, hatch-year & adult Oak Bridge Eastern Kingbird - Turtle Pond Warbling Vireo - Warbler Walk, etc. Red-eyed Vireo - adult & juvenile Weather Station, Azalea Pond, molting juvenile Captain's Bench Blue Jay - adult and begging hatch-year Evodia Field Barn Swallow - Turtle Pond, 3 adults & nest with 3 young Reservoir White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 adults & 2 young (Bob before walk) American Robin Gray Catbird - several locations Cedar Waxwing - 2 Warbler Rock House Finch - Tupelo Field, Oven, Azalea Pond Worm-eating Warbler - Tupelo Field (Bob before walk) Blue-winged Warbler - north end Tupelo Field/Weather Station Black-and-white Warbler - 6 total - E. of Azalea Pond, W. of Azalea Pond, Upper Lobe, Oak Bridge, others before walk (Bob) Prairie Warbler - male north end Tupelo Field/Weather Station Song Sparrow - juvenile in Willow at the Oven White-throated Sparrow - Evodia Field Red-winged Blackbird - male Turtle Pond Common Grackle - various locations Baltimore Oriole - Captain's Bench, another before the walk (Bob) Tom Socci & family reported an Eastern Towhee east of the Maintenance Field. 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/ --
