Central Park NYC Monday August 8, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on a bird walk starting from Strawberry Fields at 9am
Highlights: Seven species of Wood Warblers, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Olive-sided Flycatcher, and a Cedar Waxwing feeding a juvenile. Mourning Dove Chimney Swift - 4 Herring Gull - flyover Double -crested Cormorant - 3 Turtle Pond Great Egret - Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 6 Northern Flicker - 3 together Shakespeare Garden Olive-sided Flycatcher - top of Ginkgo Fruited Plain/Upper Lobe Lawn Empidonax Flycatcher - Summer House Meadow/Swamp Eastern Kingbird - 2 Turtle Pond 2 Warbler Rock, 2 Upper Lobe Warbling Vireo - 6 (4 at Strawberry Fields) Red-eyed Vireo - Strawberry Fields Blue Jay Barn Swallow - 4 flyovers Black-capped Chickadee - 2 Upper Lobe White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 together Summer House Meadow/Swamp Carolina Wren - Maintenance Field, Warbler Rock Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Castle Walk (s. side Turtle Pond), Warbler Rock American Robin - many Gray Catbird - many Cedar Waxwing - juvenile fed Hackberry by one of two adults Strawberry Fields House Finch - many Louisiana Waterthrush - Upper Lobe Northern Waterthrush - Upper Lobe, Turtle Pond, Maintenance Field Blue-winged Warbler - Strawberry Fields, Maintenance Field Black-and-white Warbler - 6 (3 of these in Strawberry Fields) American Redstart - 15 incl. one adult male Yellow Warbler - 4 Canada Warbler - Strawberry Fields Northern Cardinal Common Grackle Baltimore Oriole - 10 incl. adult male Some birds omitted from Sunday's report: Barn Swallow flyover, Wood Thrush (Maintenance Field before walk), Song Sparrow (heard at Bow Bridge before walk), Baltimore Oriole (Tupelo Field). An adult Black-crowned Night-Heron was also reported at Turtle Pond by Sandra Critelli. 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/ --
