Central Park NYC - North End Friday August 5, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walk starting from Conservatory Garden at 9am.
Highlights - 5 Wood Warbler species incl. a Chestnut-sided Warbler (FOS). Note: The Loch is undergoing construction/renovation including tree removal, and 75% is blocked off. Mourning Dove Ring-billed Gull - flyover Double-crested Cormorant - flyover Great Egret - 2 flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker - 4 Northern Flicker Eastern Kingbird - pair Blockhouse Warbling Vireo - 8 throughout Red-eyed Vireo - Blockhouse Black-capped Chickadee - 2 south end Great Hill, 2 Blockhouse Tufted Titmouse - 2 North woods White-breasted Nuthatch - Blockhouse Gray Catbird - abundant Northern Mockingbird - east side of Meer Cedar Waxwing - flock of 6 east side of Great Hill in Black Cherry House Finch - 3 or 4 American Goldfinch - pair Wildflower Meadow Blue-winged Warbler - adult male east side of Great Hill Black-and-white Warbler - 4 American Redstart - 6 Yellow Warbler - 10 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 adult molting on crown - first-of-season Baltimore Oriole - hatch-year female Blockhouse Cliff Deb Allen - 5 Wood Warbler species incl. Chestnut-sided -- 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/ --