Central Park NYC Sunday August 7, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the Boathouse at 9am
Highlights: Warbler diversity increased to nine species including our first-of-season Canada & Yellow-rumped Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Herring Gull - flyover Red-bellied Woodpecker - adult male & hatch-year together at Summer House Downy Woodpecker - Triplet's Bridge, Summer, House, the Point Northern Flicker - 3 Shakespeare Garden, 3 Oven Eastern Kingbird - Turtle Pond, 2 hatch-year birds close together at Bow Bridge (before walk) Warbler Vireo - several locations, best looks at Warbler Rock Red-eyed Vireo - Tupelo Field/Humming Tombstone Blue Jay White-breasted Nuthatch - Indian Cave House Wren - Stone Arch Carolina Wren - Maintenance Field/Iphigene's Walk American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird - Shakespeare Garden Cedar Waxwing - flock of 14-15 sen here & there & others House Finch - Weather Station, Summer House Swamp Louisiana Waterthrush - Triplet's Bridge Northern Waterthrush - Upper Lobe, Azalea Pond Blue-winged Warbler - Maintenance Field & Tupelo Field (before walk) Black-and-white Warbler - Maintenance Field, Warbler Rock, Azalea Pond American Redstart - 15 Northern Parula - Humming Tombstone Yellow Warbler - 5 Yellow-rumped Warbler - Shakespeare Garden - FOS Canada Warbler - Wagner Cove (before walk) our FOS Sandra Critelli reported a hatch-year Black-crowned Night-Heron at Turtle Pond after the walk. 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/ --